Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kagami learned from Shion that her Death Prophecy showed a gigantic black shadow wreaking havoc across Konoha, and he told Ashiho to prioritize getting Shion to safety if unrest began. Meanwhile, Shisui and Itachi investigated an old Uchiha mural depicting a Susanoo holding an enormous gourd.

• Hyuga Kagami encountered Orochimaru outside Root's base, but Orochimaru left rather than fight him.
• Shion told Hyuga Kagami that her Death Prophecy showed a black shadow damaging Konoha and killing a civilian, and Ashiho confirmed she had told no one else.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shion and Ashiho to keep the prophecy secret and instructed Ashiho to take Shion to shelter if unrest broke out.
• Shisui called Itachi over to examine an old mural showing an Uchiha's Susanoo holding a huge gourd.

Itachi and Shisui investigated murals depicting a powerful Uchiha ancestor and suspected the crimson gourd in his Susanoo was the legendary Totsuka Blade. Meanwhile, Kurenai continued training to surpass Hyuga Kagami, then returned home and found Orochimaru waiting for her with a request.

• Itachi noticed the gourd in the murals was a different color from the Uchiha ancestor’s Susanoo, and he and Shisui suspected it might be the Totsuka Blade.
• After finding no further records of the gourd, Shisui and Itachi used clan records to identify ancestral graves and decided to search them.
• Kurenai trained to improve her abilities and rejected Asuma’s invitation to visit a new restaurant.
• Orochimaru appeared in Kurenai’s home and asked her to do something for him, while Kurenai drew a kunai and refused to help a Konoha traitor.

Orochimaru incapacitated Kurenai with poison while Shisui and Itachi searched Uchiha tombs for the Totsuka Blade. After discovering a hidden burial chamber, Shisui and Itachi were sucked into a giant gourd sculpture.

• Orochimaru used his improved White Phosphorus Snake Poison Mist to knock Kurenai unconscious.
• Shisui and Itachi searched ancient Uchiha tombs but found no clues until Itachi discovered a round stone plaque in a false tomb.
• Itachi and Shisui used the plaque to open a hidden passage and found a coffin and a giant gourd sculpture in the burial chamber.
• Shisui and Itachi decided to notify Senior Kagami so he could check whether the Totsuka Blade was inside the unopened coffin.
• Itachi touched the gourd sculpture, and it sucked both him and Shisui inside.

Orochimaru abducted Kurenai to use her genjutsu skills to break the illusion guarding clues to the Totsuka Blade, while Hyuga Kagami investigated her disappearance. After receiving a message about the Uchiha Ruins, Kagami flew there and spotted a huge creature approaching.

• Orochimaru explained that he wanted Kurenai to help him with a task unrelated to Konoha, then summoned a giant snake and carried her away.
• Hyuga Kagami investigated Kurenai's home and concluded that she had been abducted by a powerful attacker.
• Yugao brought Asuma to Kurenai's home, and Asuma rushed off to search for her.
• Hyuga Kagami received a message about the Uchiha Ruins, left a Shadow Clone in Konoha, and flew there using his Wind Release Clone and Magnet Release.
• Hyuga Kagami recognized the ruins as the site of Itachi and Sasuke's final battle, then saw dust rising as an enormous creature approached.

Hyuga Kagami confronted Orochimaru at the Uchiha Ruins and demanded that he release Kurenai, while hiding his own interest in the Totsuka Blade. Orochimaru summoned the First and Second Hokage with Impure World Reincarnation, and Hyuga Kagami prepared to face them.

• Hyuga Kagami spotted Orochimaru approaching the Uchiha Ruins with the abducted Kurenai and realized Orochimaru was also pursuing the Totsuka Blade.
• Hyuga Kagami demanded that Orochimaru release Kurenai, concealing that he had come to investigate the Totsuka Blade.
• Orochimaru refused to release Kurenai and said he would return her unharmed in three days, but Hyuga Kagami insisted she be freed immediately.
• Orochimaru summoned the First and Second Hokage with Impure World Reincarnation and ordered them to kill Hyuga Kagami.
• The reanimated Hokage attacked, and Hyuga Kagami braced himself to fight them.

Hyuga Kagami overwhelmed Orochimaru’s reincarnated First and Second Hokage, then rescued Kurenai after Orochimaru escaped with a Shadow Clone. The First Hokage unleashed Wood Release, trapping Hyuga Kagami and Kurenai in a rapidly growing forest as the two Hokage attacked.

• Hyuga Kagami tested the First and Second Hokage’s strength, defeated them with taijutsu, and bound their bodies in iron sand.
• Hyuga Kagami attacked Orochimaru, but Orochimaru revealed that he had used a Shadow Clone and escaped with the giant snake.
• Hyuga Kagami caught Kurenai as she fell, freed her restraints, and asked if she was all right.
• The First Hokage’s Wood Release erupted, and Hyuga Kagami carried Kurenai into the air to escape the growing forest.
• The trees formed a cage around Hyuga Kagami and Kurenai while the First and Second Hokage attacked, and Orochimaru watched from the ruins.

Hyuga Kagami fought the First and Second Hokage’s reanimated bodies while protecting the poisoned Kurenai, and the battle left him trapped in trees after he used his Iron Sand to shield her. Kurenai remained safe inside an iron cage, unable to find him in the darkness.

• Orochimaru suspected Wind Chime had a personal connection to Kurenai after seeing him risk himself to save her.
• Hyuga Kagami pulled Kurenai free with Iron Sand, then recognized the Second Hokage’s Water Severing Wave and stepped in front of her.
• The Water Severing Wave cut through Hyuga Kagami’s Iron Sand shield and wounded him, but his Shikotsumyaku bone membrane protected his internal organs.
• Hyuga Kagami ordered Kurenai behind him and assessed his limited options against the immortal reanimated Hokage.
• The First Hokage’s Bringer-of-Darkness Technique plunged the area into darkness, and Hyuga Kagami used his Iron Sand to cage Kurenai against the encroaching trees.
• The trees wrapped around Hyuga Kagami after he spent his Iron Sand protecting Kurenai, while she called for him from inside the cage.

Orochimaru watched the forest battle and believed the God Organization had been defeated, but Hyuga Kagami unleashed Shikotsumyaku and transformed the area into a bone forest. After Kagami’s Bone Clones overwhelmed Orochimaru’s defenses, Orochimaru fled toward the forest.

• Orochimaru prepared to cancel the summoning after the battle in the forest appeared to end.
• Hyuga Kagami’s Shikotsumyaku spread a bone forest into the Uchiha ruins, and Kagami ambushed Orochimaru with Bracken Dance.
• Orochimaru healed the deep wound on his back and considered summoning the First and Second Hokage to his side.
• Kagami’s Bone Clones attacked Orochimaru, shredded his snakes, and cut through his kunai and arm.
• Orochimaru used his Kusanagi Sword to block the Bone Clones’ attacks and fled toward the distant forest.

Hyuga Kagami’s A-Type Wind Release Clone overwhelmed Orochimaru in close combat and bisected him, but Orochimaru escaped with his Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique. The clone pursued him as Orochimaru fled toward the First and Second Hokage’s Edo Tensei bodies, wary that Wind Chime might possess more Kekkei Genkai.

• Hyuga Kagami’s A-Type Wind Release Clone drove Orochimaru through the forest of bones with relentless taijutsu and bone-blade attacks.
• The clone cut Orochimaru in half and confirmed through the Byakugan that he had struck Orochimaru’s real body.
• Orochimaru recognized the clone’s Byakugan and suspected Wind Chime had used the Chimera Technique to combine multiple Kekkei Genkai.
• Orochimaru released green mist and used the Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique to shed his damaged body and escape.
• Hyuga Kagami identified the technique and pursued Orochimaru as he raced toward the First and Second Hokage’s Edo Tensei bodies.

Hyuga Kagami, acting as the God Organization member Wind Chime, confronted Orochimaru and the reanimated First and Second Hokage while trying to rescue Kurenai. Orochimaru escaped after the Second Hokage wounded Kurenai and marked her with the Flying Thunder God formula, leaving Hyuga Kagami unable to pursue safely.

• Orochimaru ordered the reanimated First and Second Hokage to stop Hyuga Kagami, who quickly cut down the Second Hokage’s body and tried to seal it.
• The First Hokage’s Wood Release and the Second Hokage’s Water Release forced Hyuga Kagami to focus on rescuing Kurenai from her iron cage.
• Hyuga Kagami broke the cage and reached Kurenai, but the Second Hokage used the Flying Thunder God Technique to slash her and leave a teleportation mark on her back.
• The flood receded, and Hyuga Kagami let Orochimaru flee because pursuing him could leave Kurenai vulnerable to another Flying Thunder God attack.
• Orochimaru escaped and suspected that Wind Chime had come for Yuhi Kurenai rather than the Totsuka Blade.

Hyuga Kagami treated Kurenai after Orochimaru escaped, erased the Flying Thunder God coordinate formula from her, and searched the Uchiha Ruins for Shisui and Itachi. His Shikotsumyaku bloodline disease worsened, and the chapter ended with Kurenai waking and angrily asking whether he had seen her bare chest, prompting his awkward reply.

• Hyuga Kagami found Kurenai unconscious with a chest wound and treated her using Ryumyaku chakra and bandages.
• Hyuga Kagami erased the Second Hokage's Flying Thunder God coordinate formula from Kurenai after an hour of work.
• Hyuga Kagami headed to the Uchiha Ruins, where his bloodline disease caused him to cough up blood and his Iron Sand began to disintegrate.
• Hyuga Kagami searched the damaged ruins and found an empty underground burial chamber with a coffin and a gourd-shaped stone statue.
• Kurenai woke on the ruins' dome at night, realized her upper body was bare, and demanded to know whether Hyuga Kagami had seen everything.
• Hyuga Kagami awkwardly answered that she was well-developed.

Hyuga Kagami rescued Kurenai from Orochimaru, but she believed his actions showed genuine concern for her. After she left, Orochimaru returned to his base and reconsidered the Chimera Technique following his defeat by Wind Chime.

• Hyuga Kagami teased Kurenai, then told her he had saved her to disrupt Orochimaru's plans.
• Kurenai argued that Hyuga Kagami had risked himself to protect her and asked why he possessed so many Kekkei Genkai.
• Hyuga Kagami coughed up blood from his Kekkei Genkai disease, then identified himself as the God Organization's Wind Chime before Kurenai left.
• Hyuga Kagami wondered how he could use the fact that Kurenai's captain was him to manage what she would report.
• Orochimaru returned to his base, told Kabuto he had met a troublesome opponent, and reconsidered the Chimera Technique after retrieving its scroll.

Orochimaru considered using Danzo to test and improve the Chimera Technique, while Hyuga Kagami discovered his A-Type Wind Release Clone’s bloodline disease was worsening. After Kurenai returned to Konoha, she gave Kagami a deliberately vague account of Wind Chime, leaving him puzzled by her silence.

• Orochimaru recognized the Chimera Technique’s risks to its host’s body and spirit, then considered using Danzo to gather experimental data.
• Hyuga Kagami found that inflammation near the A-Type Wind Release Clone’s spine was spreading and decided to limit his use of Shikotsumyaku.
• Hyuga Kagami searched the Uchiha Ruins, found no sign of Shisui or Itachi, and returned to the village before Kurenai.
• After Kurenai returned to Konoha Hospital, Hyuga Kagami questioned her and prepared to alter her report before the Third Hokage could question her.
• Kurenai described Orochimaru summoning the First Hokage and Second Hokage, but claimed she had seen little of Wind Chime and reported only his Magnet Release.
• Hyuga Kagami grew confused by Kurenai’s account as she privately resolved to keep Wind Chime’s identity secret to avoid conflict between the Hyuga Clan and the village.

Hyuga Kagami and his allies questioned Kurenai after Orochimaru abducted her, but her subdued behavior and silence about his Wind Release clone made him suspect something was wrong. As Konoha prepared for a secret Five Kage Summit amid the looming threat of war, the chapter ended with Kakashi admitting that his dating advice to Asuma came from Make-Out Paradise.

• Kurenai left after giving Hyuga Kagami her report, and Yugao and Hyuga Kagami both sensed that something about her behavior was off.
• Asuma, Kakashi, Guy, Anko, and others learned that Orochimaru had abducted Kurenai, then Asuma invited everyone to dinner to celebrate her safe return.
• Hyuga Kagami brought Kurenai to the Third, who asked only a few questions before letting them leave, while Hyuga Kagami reflected on the approaching Five Kage Summit and suspected Kurenai knew something about his Wind Release clone.
• Asuma, Kakashi, and Hyuga Kagami met at an izakaya, where Asuma revealed that Kakashi had been teaching him how to pursue Kurenai.
• Kakashi showed Hyuga Kagami the book behind his advice: Make-Out Paradise.

Hyuga Kagami joined Asuma, Kakashi, and their friends for drinks, where they discussed Asuma’s efforts to pursue Kurenai. After Kurenai asked Hyuga Kagami whether anyone in the Hyuga Main Branch had white hair, he grew suspicious of her unusual questions.

• Hyuga Kagami mocked Kakashi’s Make-Out Paradise, then offered Asuma advice about pursuing Kurenai.
• Hayate advised Asuma to become strong enough to earn Kurenai’s admiration, since Asuma had not even confessed to her yet.
• Kurenai, Yugao, Anko, and Guy joined the gathering, and Kurenai said the Third Hokage had only asked her a few questions about recent events.
• An evacuation alarm sounded, and the group noted that the village had been holding frequent drills.
• Kurenai privately asked Hyuga Kagami whether the Hyuga Main Branch had any white-haired members, making him suspicious.

Kurenai questioned Hyuga Kagami about white-haired Hyuga members while each mistook the other’s motives. Later, Kagami visited Danzo’s laboratory with information on the Demon Bud, where Orochimaru proposed using shape-changing Uzumaki sealing techniques to restrain it.

• Kurenai asked Hyuga Kagami whether the Hyuga Main Branch had any white-haired members, and he said it did not.
• Kurenai declined Asuma’s invitation to the hot springs, while Kakashi lamented that his romantic approach had failed.
• Hyuga Kagami tried unsuccessfully to contact Shisui and Itachi, then went to Danzo’s Root base as Wind Chime.
• Danzo introduced Orochimaru as a collaborator on the Chimera Technique’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual and brought him and Kagami to the laboratory.
• Kagami gave Danzo information seized from Shennong and questioned the plan to restrain the Demon Bud with Sealing Jutsu.
• Orochimaru suggested using shape-changing Uzumaki techniques such as Adamantine Sealing Chains to seal the Demon Bud.

Danzo revealed Mito Uzumaki’s secret scroll of the Adamantine Sealing Chains as he sought a way to control his living Demon Bud. The scroll’s bloodline requirement left Danzo uncertain, and he brought Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru to a vast laboratory where he had already begun testing other Sealing Jutsu.

• Danzo ordered a Root ninja to retrieve Mito Uzumaki’s secret scroll of the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru studied the scroll and realized that cultivating the technique required Uzumaki blood.
• Danzo said he might attempt the technique because he had implanted First Hokage Cells, but Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru doubted his chances.
• Danzo led Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru through a secret passage to an enormous cultivation room.
• Danzo showed them more than a hundred living Demon Buds and said he had already tested over twenty Sealing Jutsu without ideal results.

Hyuga Kagami, Orochimaru, and Danzo examined Demon Bud experiments and discussed ways to improve its seals, materials, and cultivation process. Outside Konoha, Ōnoki arrived secretly for a gathering of the Five Kage, with the other three Kage already present.

• Hyuga Kagami examined the damaged seals on the Demon Bud test subjects and concluded that ordinary formula-based Sealing Jutsu could not restrain them for long.
• Orochimaru proposed adapting the Adamantine Sealing Chains and testing more stable materials, while Hyuga Kagami suggested fusing Demon Bud with its owner's cells from the start of cultivation.
• Danzo welcomed their proposals, unaware that Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru hoped to use his resources to test costly ideas they had previously been unable to pursue.
• The Third Hokage's Shadow Guard captain met Ōnoki and his Iwagakure escort outside Konoha and confirmed that the Kazekage, Raikage, and Mizukage had arrived.
• Ōnoki's group bypassed Konoha's patrols and entered the village secretly.

Hyuga Kagami searched for Shisui and Itachi while working with Orochimaru to improve the Chimera Technique. At the Ninja Academy enrollment, Neji identified Sasuke as his rival, just as a strange sound reached Naruto and Sasuke and Sasuke's eyes turned scarlet.

• Hyuga Kagami sent his ninja crows across the area to search for Shisui and Itachi while he and Orochimaru tested gel materials at Danzo's Root base.
• Hyuga Kagami wondered whether Hiruko's old experimental records could help them and felt that something bad might happen.
• Hizashi took Neji to the Ninja Academy enrollment, where Neji judged the new students and worried that the Hokage had not attended.
• Neji spotted Sasuke beneath a tree and declared him a formidable rival, while Naruto and Sasuke discussed Neji's stare.
• A strange, roaring wail sounded near Naruto and Sasuke, and Sasuke's eyes turned scarlet.

The Box of Bliss opened after Mui wished for his son Muku to return, while its malice sent a strange sound across Konoha and triggered an evacuation. The chapter left an unknown figure emerging from the box as the Third Hokage learned that Kusagakure knew nothing more about what it contained.

• Hizashi and Neji sensed evil in the sound, and Hizashi urged Sasuke and Naruto to return home.
• Shion foresaw many Death Prophecies, and Ashiho took her toward a shelter as Konoha's evacuation alarms rang.
• Shinichi and Hiruko departed with the unconscious Yugito Nii after arranging for the Grass Ninja to open the Box of Bliss.
• Mui wished for the Box of Bliss to return his son Muku, defying the four Kusagakure elders as the box opened and an unknown figure emerged.
• Ryūran told the Third Hokage that Kusagakure had lost its records about the Box of Bliss and warned him to treat it with caution.