Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kagami used Hell Golden Lotus to destroy Deidara’s clay clone but let Deidara escape, prioritizing the mission to collect his cells. Days later, Deidara’s explosive clone attacked three Akatsuki members, and he fled again, deciding to return to Iwagakure.

• Hyuga Kagami exposed Deidara’s clay clone with Hell Golden Lotus and melted it, while Deidara watched from underground.
• Hyuga Kagami sensed Deidara retreating and chose not to pursue him, then dismissed his Susanoo and flames.
• After escaping the Land of Fire, Deidara encountered Uchiha Shinichi, Kakuzu, and Sasori, who tried to recruit him into Akatsuki.
• Deidara’s clone self-destructed, damaging Shinichi’s Susanoo and Sasori’s Hiruko while leaving Kakuzu badly injured but alive.
• Deidara escaped on a clay bird and decided to return to Iwagakure to hide for a while.

Hyuga Kagami returned to his aerial fortress with Deidara's cellular tissue, tested Gaara's training, and began cultivating Deidara's cells in his upgraded laboratory. The compatibility estimate was low, but his improved equipment and fusion process gave him a better chance of success than before.

• Hyuga Kagami returned to the fortress and surprised Gaara with a punch, which Gaara blocked using his trained sand control.
• Hyuga Kagami praised Gaara and noted that he had improved despite losing access to Shukaku's chakra, then told Gaara and Karin he would find opponents their age for them.
• Hyuga Kagami entered his newly upgraded laboratory, equipped with advanced instruments bought using his recent earnings.
• Hyuga Kagami treated Deidara's flesh and began cultivating samples of his cellular tissue to increase their vitality before fusion.
• Hyuga Kagami checked the cell-matching instrument and found that Deidara's cells had an estimated four percent fusion success rate with his own.

Hyuga Kagami expanded his laboratory’s cloning capacity and checked on the Water Clone Technique and Wind Clone Technique before returning to the Ninja Academy. He pushed for faster teaching, proposed adding D-rank and C-rank ninjutsu to the curriculum, and established monthly assessments with publicly posted results.

• Hyuga Kagami inspected his new nutrient tanks and found the Wind Clone Technique’s bloodline disease was controlled, though blood transfusions were becoming less effective.
• After returning to the village, Hyuga Kagami reviewed his Shadow Clone’s memories and learned that Fū had joined Naruto, Rock Lee, Kiba, Choji, and the others after losing to Sasuke.
• Hyuga Kagami told the faculty that the Academy’s teaching pace was too slow, and Iruka asked what students would learn if they finished the curriculum early.
• Hyuga Kagami said he would ask the Hokage and elders to add D-rank and C-rank ninjutsu to the curriculum, prompting concern from the instructors and Shisui.
• Hyuga Kagami ordered every student to learn one of the Three Basic Jutsu that month and announced monthly assessments with results posted publicly.

Hyuga Kagami imposed public monthly exams on the Ninja Academy students, arguing that shinobi had to endure pressure before facing the battlefield, while privately admitting he wanted to make them suffer. Meanwhile, Danzo accepted Orochimaru’s offer of a body transformation, and Hyuga Kagami observed the surgery as the fusion of Danzo’s transplanted cells and Sharingan began.

• Guy questioned whether Hyuga Kagami’s new school rules were too harsh, but Hyuga Kagami said he would rather be resented than see students die on the battlefield.
• Guy accepted Hyuga Kagami’s reasoning, and Hyuga Kagami privately revealed that he also wanted to vent his anger on the students.
• The Ninja Academy announced the new rules, prompting students, including Naruto, to train seriously for the monthly exams.
• Danzo accepted Orochimaru’s transformation proposal and invited the God Organization’s Flame Demon to observe the surgery.
• Hyuga Kagami arrived at Root’s base in his Fire Clone, then watched Orochimaru inject Danzo with fusion fluid to help integrate the First Hokage Cells and Sharingan.
• Danzo’s body began to grow younger as his Yin and Yang chakra started to fuse, and Hyuga Kagami recognized the emergence of the Power of All Things.

Orochimaru’s fusion fluid helped Danzo achieve an initial fusion with the First Hokage Cells, making him feel as if he had returned to thirty. Danzo then began replacing Uchiha Shin’s arm with White Zetsu’s clone’s arm, while Hyuga Kagami noticed that Danzo had only eight Sharingan left.

• Hyuga Kagami felt his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan pulse as Danzo’s Yin and Yang chakra fused.
• Orochimaru’s fusion fluid restored Danzo’s vitality, and Danzo woke and praised Orochimaru’s work.
• Hyuga Kagami warned Danzo that the changes were only the initial effects of fusing with the First Hokage Cells.
• Orochimaru advised Danzo to replace Uchiha Shin’s arm with White Zetsu’s clone’s arm, and Danzo agreed to proceed.
• Orochimaru began transplanting the new arm, while Hyuga Kagami counted seven Sharingan in Danzo’s arm and one in his eye socket.

Orochimaru transplanted a White Zetsu arm and fused Danzo’s body with First Hokage Cells before carrying out a drastic human modification surgery. Hyuga Kagami assessed the results afterward and expected Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual to begin in about a month.

• Orochimaru completed Danzo’s arm transplant, then injected fusion fluid that caused Danzo intense pain as his cells rapidly renewed.
• Orochimaru explained that Danzo’s cells had nearly all died and regenerated during the fusion, while Danzo noticed increased chakra reserves and Sharingan ocular power.
• Orochimaru revealed that the earlier procedures had only prepared Danzo for his human modification surgery, then began the grotesque operation.
• After the surgery, Hyuga Kagami returned to the Ninja Academy and judged that Orochimaru had improved Danzo’s cellular vitality and begun fusing his Sharingan with the First Hokage Cells.
• Hyuga Kagami estimated that Danzo would need three weeks to recover and that the Bloodline Fusion Ritual could begin in a month.

Neji and Sasuke earned perfect grades in a classroom assessment, with Sasuke impressing the class by using the Shadow Clone Technique. After the assessment, Hyuga Kagami backed announcing the results despite Rock Lee’s failure, calling Lee a different kind of genius.

• Neji performed the Clone Technique and received an Excellent grade from Iruka.
• Sasuke used the Shadow Clone Technique, drawing the class’s attention and intensifying his rivalry with Neji.
• Iruka awarded Sasuke an Excellent grade after Sasuke brushed aside his warning about the jutsu.
• Shikamaru pointed out that Rock Lee could not perform any of the Three Basic Jutsu, and Lee collapsed in despair.
• Iruka gave Hyuga Kagami the grade book and questioned whether the results should be announced because Rock Lee had failed.
• Hyuga Kagami said the results would be announced and described Rock Lee as a different kind of genius.

Hyuga Kagami continued his experiments while defending his strict assessment standard for the Academy students. Meanwhile, the Third Hokage investigated Danzo’s secret mobilization, and Orochimaru oversaw preparations for Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual in a volcanic cave.

• Hyuga Kagami told Iruka that students who could not learn a Basic Jutsu within a week lacked ninjutsu talent, but said Rock Lee’s setbacks would motivate him rather than lead to expulsion.
• Hyuga Kagami reviewed data showing that ten Earth Release clones were developing normally and continued monitoring them as they grew in their nutrient tanks.
• Kakashi told the Third Hokage that Danzo had secretly deployed more than a thousand people, including medical ninjas, and the Third Hokage ordered him to track their destination and mission.
• The Third Hokage, increasingly worried about Danzo’s plans, summoned the elder advisors.
• Orochimaru watched several hundred Root ninjas prepare a volcanic cave for the Bloodline Fusion Ritual and eagerly anticipated its potential to change the ninja world.

The Fourth Raikage discovered a suspicious volcanic cave and, convinced Konoha had abducted Kumogakure’s Storm Release ninja to perform Hiruko’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual, ordered an immediate raid. At the cave, Hyuga Kagami inspected Danzo’s preparations with Orochimaru as the ritual’s central figure approached.

• Kumogakure Anbu reported a suspicious volcanic cave near a Konoha outpost to the Fourth Raikage.
• The Fourth Raikage concluded Konoha had taken a Storm Release ninja to copy the Chimera Technique and rejected the suggestion to seek help from other villages.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered the Kumogakure forces nearby to prepare to raid the volcanic cave.
• Hyuga Kagami inspected the altar and five execution racks where Danzo planned to conduct the Bloodline Fusion Ritual.
• Orochimaru questioned Hyuga Kagami about the cave and the ritual, and Hyuga Kagami warned him not to interfere.
• A cane sounded as the protagonist of the ritual entered the cave.

Hyuga Kagami, Orochimaru, and Danzo prepared to begin Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual using a lava cavern and chakra supplied by fifteen hundred Konoha shinobi. As five captured Kekkei Genkai users were shackled to the altar, Danzo secretly planned to destroy the cavern and kill the others after the ritual, while Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru remained unconcerned by his hostility.

• Danzo arrived in his crippled disguise and asked about the ritual preparations, and Orochimaru reported that the cavern work was nearly complete.
• Danzo said he had assembled fifteen hundred Konoha shinobi to power the chakra transmission array and that the array had passed forty-seven inspections.
• Hyuga Kagami confirmed the ritual was ready, and Danzo ordered it to begin.
• Root brought five unconscious Kekkei Genkai users to the altar, and Hyuga Kagami identified their abilities as Storm Release, Boil Release, Dark Release, Crystal Release, and Swift Release.
• Danzo secretly planned to detonate Explosive Tags in the cavern after the ritual and kill Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru, while both men noticed his killing intent but continued pretending to trust him.

Kakashi discovered that Danzo had assembled over a thousand Konoha ninja around a massive jutsu formation and sent a warning to the village. Inside a volcanic cavern, Orochimaru began the Bloodline Fusion Ritual as Danzo’s captives woke on the altar.

• Kakashi observed the formation and chakra pipes, recorded what he saw, and sent the intelligence to Konoha with a communication hawk.
• Hyuga Kagami set up monitoring devices while Orochimaru warned him that Danzo seemed to have other intentions and Root ninja closed in around them.
• Danzo took his place on the altar as Root ninja withdrew, leaving him and five captured bloodline ninja behind.
• Orochimaru activated the ritual, causing the altar to glow and a vortex to stir the hot air.
• The captives woke, and the Storm Release ninja from Kumogakure and the Boil Release ninja from Kirigakure challenged Danzo, who said they should feel honored to serve his cause.

Danzo began the Bloodline Fusion Ritual, using the new Demon Buds to devour five bloodline ninjas before struggling to fuse their flesh and blood. As Orochimaru drew chakra from more than fifteen hundred Konoha ninjas to support him, Danzo’s eyes became Three Tomoe Sharingan and the tomoe began to converge.

• Danzo unleashed the new Demon Buds, which devoured the five bloodline ninjas on the execution racks.
• Hyuga Kagami monitored the ritual and noticed Orochimaru watching Danzo with greed and anticipation.
• Danzo absorbed the Demon Buds and released a massive amount of chakra, but the fusion still progressed too slowly.
• Danzo ordered Orochimaru to activate the chakra transmission array, draining chakra from more than fifteen hundred Konoha ninjas outside the cavern.
• Danzo’s Yin-Yang power rose, and the tomoe in his Three Tomoe Sharingan began to converge.

Hyuga Kagami watched Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual and saw his eyes awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan as his chakra and Yin Release grew. Danzo’s body then burst apart, and although Root contained the Demon Buds, Danzo’s spirit body continued to collapse.

• Hyuga Kagami realized Danzo’s ordinary left eye had become a Sharingan because the ritual had given his body powerful Uchiha-like Yin Release chakra.
• Hyuga Kagami used Danzo’s changing eyes to track the ritual while Orochimaru watched the transformation with greed and fascination.
• Danzo’s Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Danzo reacted with satisfaction before his spirit body showed signs of trouble.
• Danzo’s body exploded as the Demon Buds overwhelmed him, scattering the creatures around the altar.
• Root’s chief research officer activated a device that chilled and weakened the rampaging Demon Buds, but Danzo remained unstable as Hyuga Kagami concluded that the ritual lacked soul fusion.

Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual stalled when conflicting souls overwhelmed him, but Orochimaru activated a secretly planted Curse Mark to use natural energy to erase those souls and restart the fusion. As Danzo’s Mangekyō Sharingan began evolving toward an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Orochimaru realized the Sharingan might have further stages.

• Danzo’s soul fusion failed, halting his bodily fusion and leaving Hyuga Kagami to conclude that the ritual was likely doomed.
• Root’s chief research officer urged Orochimaru to intervene, but Orochimaru told him to wait.
• Danzo lost control of his body as the other souls overwhelmed his own, and Orochimaru activated the Curse Mark he had secretly planted during Danzo’s surgery.
• Natural energy from the Curse Mark eroded the souls’ chakra, reducing their interference and restarting Danzo’s fusion.
• Danzo’s Mangekyō Sharingan changed into a sharper, saw-toothed pattern, and Orochimaru excitedly remarked that the Mangekyō might not be the Sharingan’s final stage.

During Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual, his Mangekyō Sharingan evolved into an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, convincing Hyuga Kagami that the ritual might create a god. Danzo demanded more Chakra to continue the evolution, and Root trapped more than a thousand Konoha ninja in the transmission array to drain them for his sake.

• Orochimaru and Hyuga Kagami witnessed Danzo awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Hyuga Kagami realized Danzo might be able to evolve it further toward the Rinnegan.
• Danzo briefly regained control of his body, blamed Orochimaru for what had been done to him, and then agreed to overlook Orochimaru’s tricks if he helped him endure the ritual.
• Danzo demanded more Chakra, and the Root chief researcher increased the transmission array’s output despite the danger to the Konoha ninja powering it.
• The increased output drained some Konoha ninja to death, and Root leaders immobilized the rest with a Sealing Jutsu and declared they would be sacrificed for Danzo.

Danzo’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual consumed far more chakra than expected as his eyes evolved into Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving the shinobi powering the array collapsing outside. When the output was forced to its maximum, Danzo’s eyes began changing again, and Hyuga Kagami’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan stirred in response.

• The Konoha shinobi bound to the chakra transmission array collapsed as the ritual drained their life force, alarming Kakashi outside the lava cavern.
• Danzo demanded more chakra while Root's chief research officer warned that raising the output would endanger the 1,500 shinobi.
• Hyuga Kagami realized the chakra demands multiplied with each stage of the ritual and concluded Danzo could not reach Kekkei Mōra with the available chakra.
• Danzo’s gaze compelled Root's chief research officer to push the array’s output to its maximum.
• Danzo’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan began changing again, and Hyuga Kagami covered his eyes as his own Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan stirred.

Hyuga Kagami's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan reacted to the power of all creation inside Danzo, and the two awakened their Susanoo in a clash. Their battle left the ninja in the lava cavern watching as the two ocular powers proved evenly matched.

• Danzo's growing power let him suppress Orochimaru's Curse Mark and boast that he would kill Orochimaru and Hyuga Kagami once the ritual ended.
• Hyuga Kagami struggled to control his restless Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, which was drawn to the power of all creation in Danzo's body.
• Hyuga Kagami stopped suppressing his eyes, and his golden Susanoo emerged and began pulling Danzo's power toward him.
• Danzo recognized Hyuga Kagami's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned a dark crimson Susanoo with clawed hands.
• Hyuga Kagami's golden Susanoo and Danzo's dark crimson Susanoo clashed, matching each other blow for blow.

Hyuga Kagami and Danzo fought with their Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan Susanoo while competing for the Power of All Things produced by Danzo’s ritual. Hyuga Kagami began drawing in more of the power, leaving Danzo shocked as he fell behind.

• Danzo’s dark crimson Susanoo released a corrosive blood mist, and Hyuga Kagami answered with Golden Flames from his golden Susanoo.
• Orochimaru watched from hiding behind a summoned giant snake as the Root shinobi retreated from the clash.
• Danzo tried to defeat Hyuga Kagami quickly because the ritual’s Power of All Things was essential to his attempt to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Hyuga Kagami and Danzo realized their Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan were actively contesting one another as they fought over the ritual’s power.
• A stream of pale blue Power of All Things flowed into Hyuga Kagami, and Danzo was shocked to see himself losing the contest.

Hyuga Kagami fought Danzo beneath the altar to absorb the Power of All Things and keep Danzo from obtaining the Rinnegan. When the chakra supply began to falter, they realized there might only be enough power for one pair of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to evolve.

• Danzo's piercing roar struck Hyuga Kagami's spirit body, but Kagami recovered and assessed the dangers of the ritual.
• Hyuga Kagami realized Orochimaru's Curse Mark had helped Danzo survive the ritual and decided to stop him from obtaining the Rinnegan.
• Hyuga Kagami activated his golden, four-armed Susanoo, accelerating his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan's absorption of the Power of All Things.
• Danzo activated his own Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and he and Hyuga Kagami continued struggling over the power leaking from Danzo's body.
• A fluctuation in the chakra transmission array revealed that the supply was nearing its limit, leaving enough power for at most one pair of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to evolve.

Hyuga Kagami and Danzo fought over the Bloodline Fusion Ritual as Danzo’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan began evolving toward the Rinnegan. Just as Danzo declared victory, the chakra transmission abruptly stopped, interrupting the fusion and evolution.

• Danzo unleashed his chakra and transformed his dark-red Susanoo into a powerful winged complete-body form that overpowered Kagami’s golden Susanoo.
• Orochimaru watched the battle while the Root ninjas hesitated between helping Danzo and escaping the unstable lava cavern.
• Outside the cavern, Kakashi attacked the Root squad operating the chakra transmission array and killed its captain with a lightning-charged strike.
• Danzo gained the advantage over Kagami, and ring-like ripples appeared in his eyes as his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan approached the Rinnegan.
• The chakra transmission suddenly ceased, interrupting the fusion and evolution just as Danzo celebrated his apparent victory.