Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru fought to a stalemate before agreeing to stop and walk away together to discuss experiments. After Hyuga Kagami asked whether Orochimaru had recently seen Hiruko, Orochimaru stopped and demanded to know how he knew.

• Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru battled in the forest, with both their monstrous forms suffering damage as the fight wrecked the surrounding woods.
• Hyuga Kagami rescued Haku from a tree and returned him to Yamato, Kimimaro, and Jugo, who had been caught near the battle.
• Hyuga Kagami and Orochimaru agreed that neither could defeat the other and ended their fight, then walked away together to discuss experiments.
• Yamato introduced Hyuga Kagami to Haku, Kimimaro, and Jugo, and Kimimaro silently vowed to surpass him and win Orochimaru's attention.
• Hyuga Kagami asked Orochimaru whether he had recently seen Hiruko, and Orochimaru stopped and asked how Hyuga Kagami knew.

Hyuga Kagami sought Orochimaru’s help in learning Hiruko’s Chimera Technique, which could fuse Kekkei Genkai. He devised a way to overcome its flaws by fusing clones perfectly compatible with himself, leaving him with a plan to create six clones and combine them with his Tenseigan-bearing body to pursue Kekkei Mōra.

• Orochimaru told Hyuga Kagami that Hiruko had joined his organization and explained that Hiruko had developed a forbidden technique to seize other people’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Hyuga Kagami admitted he wanted the Chimera Technique, but Orochimaru dismissed it as an incomplete technique that no human body could endure.
• Hyuga Kagami recalled Hiruko’s research achievements and concluded that the Chimera Technique’s crude fusion accumulated power without improving its quality.
• Hyuga Kagami realized that cloning bodies compatible with himself could let him use the Chimera Technique without its usual drawbacks.
• Hyuga Kagami planned to create six clones representing the five elements and Yang Release, then fuse them with his Tenseigan-bearing Yin Release body to pursue Kekkei Mōra.

Hyuga Kagami asked Orochimaru for the Chimera Technique and received research materials on cell cultivation and cloning, while Orochimaru demanded information about Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan in return. Before leaving, Kagami asked to take Haku back to Konoha, and Orochimaru considered the request.

• Hyuga Kagami warned Orochimaru that Shisui was too dangerous to target, but Orochimaru remained intent on pursuing a Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Orochimaru gave Hyuga Kagami a Scroll containing materials on cell cultivation and cell cloning, and said he would discuss the Chimera Technique after Kagami discovered Shisui’s Mangekyō ability.
• Hyuga Kagami decided he did not need the Chimera Technique immediately because Hiruko might still be developing it.
• Hyuga Kagami asked Orochimaru to let him take Haku to the village, and offered to borrow him for a few months if Orochimaru would not give him up.

Hyuga Kagami brought Haku back to Konoha and settled him in a concealed underground residence before returning to his experiments. Meanwhile, a team led by Mizunazuki entered the Forest of Death to drive away a dangerous ninja boar, and Hyuga Kagami noticed a tremor in his laboratory.

• Hyuga Kagami took Haku to Konoha and hid him in the underground residence converted from Orochimaru's former laboratory.
• Hyuga Kagami learned from his Shadow Clone that Konoha's peace talks with Kumogakure might be progressing and the Uchiha Clan was searching for Uchiha Shinichi.
• Fortune-Bringer delivered Uchiha Shinichi's message that he had captured Shennong, leader of the Sky Ninja Village remnants, who planned to create an artificial Tailed Beast and attack Konoha.
• Mizunazuki led Tenma, Shinko, and Itachi into the Forest of Death to deal with a powerful ninja boar that was disrupting the forest.
• Hyuga Kagami examined two failed clones in his laboratory, then detected a faint tremor and activated his Byakugan toward its source.

Hyuga Kagami rescued Itachi’s team from a powerful wild boar that had become the tyrant of the Forest of Death, then made the boar his summoning beast and sent it into the forests of the Land of Fire. Back in his laboratory, he studied Orochimaru’s cloning research and began planning experiments to clone the Water Clone Technique using Haku’s Ice Release bloodline.

• The wild boar deflected Tenma’s shuriken, resisted Itachi’s Fire Release, and charged the team, but Itachi temporarily stopped it with genjutsu.
• The boar recovered and charged again, until Hyuga Kagami’s whistle halted it and it trotted affectionately over to him.
• Hyuga Kagami told Mizunazuki he would remove the boar from the Forest of Death, then formed a summoning contract with it and released it into the Land of Fire’s forests.
• Hyuga Kagami returned to his laboratory, studied Orochimaru’s cloning scrolls, and recognized fatal mistakes in his first cloning attempt.
• Hyuga Kagami decided to begin his next experiments with the Water Clone Technique and planned to use Haku’s Ice Release bloodline.

Hyuga Kagami completed two clones after filtering his cellular tissue and combining it with Haku’s, then accelerated their growth with the Tenseigan. He confirmed that both clones had normal bodily functions and pure white eyes.

• Hyuga Kagami filtered his cellular tissue in one hundred dishes and found six samples that had lost their Yin nature while retaining enough vitality.
• Hyuga Kagami mixed Haku’s cellular tissue into the six samples; three survived rejection, but one of those mutated into a clone primarily made of Haku’s tissue.
• Hyuga Kagami transferred the two remaining samples into nutrient tanks and used Tenseigan chakra to accelerate their growth.
• Hyuga Kagami spent a month cultivating the clones while his Shadow Clone handled Anbu Team 11’s missions and he recorded Haku’s Ice Release chakra pathways.
• Hyuga Kagami removed the completed clones from their tanks, checked their bodily functions, and found that both had pure white eyes.

Hyuga Kagami used the Tenseigan’s Soul Descent to enter a soulless clone and discovered that his presence turned its incomplete Byakugan into genuine Byakugan. He confirmed that the Tenseigan’s full power required his soul and original body together, then wondered whether the Tenseigan could remain active if removed from his body.

• Hyuga Kagami examined two clones and determined that their Byakugan were incomplete because they lacked spiritual signatures.
• Hyuga Kagami recorded the clones’ physical measurements and designated them Type A and Type B.
• Hyuga Kagami used Soul Descent to enter Type A, struggled to adjust to the clone’s body, and tested its Byakugan.
• Hyuga Kagami found that his original body’s Tenseigan had reverted to Byakugan after his soul left it.
• Hyuga Kagami tested Type A and found it could use Soul Extraction but not the Tenseigan’s other major abilities.
• Hyuga Kagami concluded that his soul and original body together formed a complete Tenseigan, then considered removing it while he occupied his original body.

Hyuga Kagami sought the Miko’s help sealing the Ryumyaku and traveled with her to Mount Zao to find a suitable ritual implement. There, the Miko showed him a gourd said to be connected to the Sage of Six Paths.

• Hyuga Kagami returned his soul to his original body and left the village to deal with the Ryumyaku sealed within it.
• Hyuga Kagami secretly entered the Miko’s palace and asked her to help seal the Ryumyaku in a ritual implement.
• The Miko identified Mount Zao as the location of a treasure capable of containing the Ryumyaku’s immense chakra.
• The Miko left the palace with Hyuga Kagami and told him that the Yomi Cult had risen again.
• The Miko revealed a hidden valley in Mount Zao and pointed out a gourd said to have been refined by the Sage of Six Paths into a powerful ritual implement.

Hyuga Kagami sealed the Ryumyaku inside a gourd artifact gifted by the Miko, allowing him to keep using its chakra with some added risk. Afterward, the Miko gave him intelligence on the Yomi Cult, and he prepared to go destroy it.

• Hyuga Kagami examined the gourd vine and learned from the Miko that its mature gourd was rare artifact material.
• The Miko picked the gourd, inscribed her lineage's Sealing Jutsu formula on it, and gave it to Hyuga Kagami as payment for defeating the Yomi Cult.
• Hyuga Kagami released the Ryumyaku from his body and sealed it into the gourd while the Miko watched.
• Hyuga Kagami tied the gourd to his waist and learned that he could still draw on the Ryumyaku's chakra, though less efficiently and with slightly greater danger.
• The Miko handed Hyuga Kagami a Scroll listing Yomi Cult bases and leaders, including its leader marked in red.

Hyuga Kagami set out to eliminate the Yomi Cult, while Jiraiya learned of a mysterious Konoha ninja with sky-blue eyes who might be connected to the Child of Prophecy. Hyuga Kagami attacked the cult’s stronghold disguised as Yama and killed its leader, Yomi.

• Hyuga Kagami assured the priestess he would swiftly wipe out the Yomi Cult and left for one of its strongholds.
• Sage Fukasaku summoned Jiraiya to Mount Myoboku to hear the Great Toad Sage’s changed prophecy.
• The Great Toad Sage described a Konoha ninja with sky-blue eyes whose presence had vanished from later prophecies, possibly because a nearby force disrupted them.
• Jiraiya vowed to find the mysterious ninja if he was the Child of Prophecy.
• Hyuga Kagami entered the Yomi Cult’s hall disguised as Yama and beheaded Yomi with the Body Flicker Technique.

Hyuga Kagami killed Yomi at the Yomi Cult's base, believing him dead after confirming his identity. Hiruko and Shennong arrived seeking the Dark Medical Ninjutsu, revived Yomi, and learned that his killer called himself Yama.

• Hyuga Kagami confirmed the severed corpse was Yomi, then searched the cult's base and found little money or supplies.
• Hiruko and Shennong flew to the Yomi Cult's base to obtain its Dark Medical Ninjutsu.
• Hiruko and Shennong found Yomi's headless corpse and deduced that a skilled attacker had killed him.
• Shennong used the Physical Regeneration Secret Technique to revive Yomi, who had survived through the False Death Technique.
• Yomi agreed to teach them the Dark Medical Ninjutsu in exchange for protection and identified his killer as Yama.

Hyuga Kagami sealed a supply of Tenseigan chakra into the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, then transferred his soul into the Type A clone. He took Haku to a secluded lake to assess the Water Release techniques Haku had learned from Orochimaru.

• Hyuga Kagami used the Four Symbols Seal to store enough Tenseigan chakra in the Third Kazekage Human Puppet to keep it active for three months outside combat.
• Hyuga Kagami used the Soul Descent Technique to enter the Type A clone and considered how to make its body and soul fully compatible and develop its strength.
• Hyuga Kagami visited Haku in the underground quarters and took him to a secluded lake near the Naka River to demonstrate his Water Release ninjutsu.
• Haku performed five Water Release techniques and told Hyuga Kagami that he also knew the Water Flow Wave Technique, which he had learned under Orochimaru's harsh training.

Hyuga Kagami demonstrated the Water Release clone’s overwhelming power while training with Haku, but the resulting disturbance forced them to flee the lake. Itachi arrived afterward, reported what he had witnessed to the Anbu, and was told to return to the village.

• Hyuga Kagami cast five Water Release jutsu with enormous force, astonishing Haku by revealing he had never used them before.
• Hyuga Kagami led Haku onto the lake and unleashed Water Release techniques powerful enough to churn the lake, fill the air with vapor, and bring on rain.
• Itachi heard the blasts, saw the rising mist and rainbow, and hurried toward the lake before a huge wave nearly flooded the forest.
• Hyuga Kagami realized he had overdone the display, picked up the dazed Haku, and vanished from the lake.
• Itachi reached the lakeshore and told the arriving Anbu squad what he had seen; the captain warned him to return to the village.

Hyuga Kagami tested a Water Release clone and adopted the new identity River Lord, hoping to accelerate the clone’s soul compatibility through combat. At a black market, he learned that the organization was searching for Yama and sensed two approaching ninja in red-cloud robes.

• Hyuga Kagami concluded that perfect soul compatibility could take years and decided intense combat might speed up the process.
• Hyuga Kagami gave his Water Release clone a black cloak and water-patterned mask, named the identity River Lord, and left a Shadow Clone in the village.
• A week later, River Lord defeated a rogue Grass Ninja who had been misidentified as a Jonin and collected information from Fortune-Bringer about the organization’s search for Yama.
• River Lord turned in the Grass Ninja’s corpse and told the black market owner that Yama was his leader.
• Hyuga Kagami sensed powerful chakra approaching the black market as two ninja in red-cloud robes and conical hats drew near.

Hyuga Kagami, disguised as River Lord, lured Kakuzu and another Akatsuki member out of town and fought them using a Water Release clone. He captured the second member, but Kakuzu struck them both with Lightning Release, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Hyuga Kagami met Kakuzu and another Akatsuki member near the black market and denied being the bounty ninja Yama.
• Hyuga Kagami fled town to keep civilians safe, and Kakuzu followed him into a nearby forest.
• Hyuga Kagami attacked with Water Flow Wave, and Kakuzu revealed his Earth Grudge Fear technique and four masked creatures.
• Hyuga Kagami trapped the other Akatsuki member in a Water Prison, but Kakuzu hit them both with Lightning Release.
• Hyuga Kagami retreated to a tree as the captured Akatsuki member fell, and Kakuzu declared that he would be next.

Hyuga Kagami used Water Release, a water clone, and Explosive Tags to survive Kakuzu's attack and reveal that he had been baiting him. Pain summoned several Akatsuki members and ordered them to support Kakuzu and capture the enemy alive.

• Kakuzu and his masked monsters attacked Hyuga Kagami, who countered with Water Release techniques and a cloud of mist.
• Kakuzu caught Hyuga Kagami with his detached, thread-linked arms and demanded information about Yama.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed that Kakuzu had grabbed a water clone rigged with Explosive Tags, then taunted him after surviving the blast.
• Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Jūzō answered Pain's mental summons using the Magic Lantern Body Technique.
• Pain ordered Orochimaru, Sasori, Uchiha Shinichi, and Biwa Jūzō to support Kakuzu in the Land of Fire and capture the enemy alive.

Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Jūzō tracked Kakuzu to a battle against the mysterious River Lord, while Orochimaru and Sasori joined them on the way. Hyuga Kagami, strained by Kakuzu’s five-element attacks, prepared to withdraw but was surrounded by four Akatsuki members.

• Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Jūzō questioned a black-market boss, who told them Kakuzu had fought River Lord and said Yama was River Lord’s leader.
• Uchiha Shinichi and Biwa Jūzō spotted artificial rain clouds and met Orochimaru and Sasori, then headed toward the battlefield.
• Hyuga Kagami struggled against Kakuzu and his four flying masked monsters, whose combined elemental attacks overwhelmed his Water Release.
• Hyuga Kagami used his Byakugan to locate the monsters, inferred Kakuzu’s real body was underground, and decided to retreat.
• Hyuga Kagami sensed four powerful chakra signatures and found himself surrounded by Uchiha Shinichi, Biwa Jūzō, Orochimaru, and Sasori.

Hyuga Kagami, disguised as River Lord, faced five Akatsuki members and tried to buy time while recovering from his battle. He attacked Orochimaru, then fled toward Uchiha Shinichi as Orochimaru pursued him, setting up a dangerous confrontation between the two Akatsuki members.

• Hyuga Kagami met Orochimaru, Sasori, Biwa Jūzō, Uchiha Shinichi, and Kakuzu, and claimed his organization was called God when they invited him to join Akatsuki.
• Sasori summoned a Kirigakure human puppet that Hyuga Kagami suspected had Ice Release, so Hyuga Kagami unleashed Water Release: Water Shockwave and used the waves to approach Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kagami attacked Orochimaru with Water Release techniques, but Orochimaru evaded his strikes and counterattacked with venomous snakes.
• Hyuga Kagami broke away from Orochimaru and fled toward Uchiha Shinichi, while Orochimaru pursued him and began contemplating a sudden attack on Shinichi.

Hyuga Kagami used a Water Clone Technique to escape Akatsuki’s encirclement while Orochimaru attacked Uchiha Shinichi for his Mangekyō Sharingan. Orochimaru’s attack sparked a split among the Akatsuki members, but Sasori pursued Hyuga Kagami with an Ice Release puppet as Hyuga Kagami ran low on chakra.

• Hyuga Kagami created a water clone and sent the two versions fleeing in opposite directions, confusing Uchiha Shinichi and the other Akatsuki members.
• Orochimaru attacked Uchiha Shinichi to seize his Sharingan, but the target vanished as a Shadow Clone.
• Biwa Jūzō confronted Orochimaru, while Kakuzu and Sasori split up to chase the two Hyuga Kagamis.
• Hyuga Kagami realized he had little chakra left and could not safely draw on the Ryumyaku’s power.
• Sasori sent his Ice Release human puppet sliding along a rapidly extending ice track to catch Hyuga Kagami.

Hyuga Kagami fought Sasori and his Ice Release human puppet, then escaped after sacrificing his right arm and leaving explosive traps behind. Sasori survived the blasts, while Hyuga Kagami continued fleeing on his summoned wild boar.

• Sasori attacked Hyuga Kagami with Ice Release senbon, and Hyuga Kagami used a severed tree trunk to shield himself and rush forward.
• Sasori froze Hyuga Kagami's right arm, but Hyuga Kagami cut it off and stabbed Sasori with a Kunai carrying Explosive Tags.
• Hyuga Kagami summoned a wild boar and escaped as Sasori sheltered inside his Hiruko puppet from the Explosive Tags.
• Sasori found Hyuga Kagami's severed arm covered in more Explosive Tags, while Hyuga Kagami treated his wound and kept fleeing.
• Hyuga Kagami heard explosions behind him and realized Sasori had triggered the traps he had left behind.