Chapter Summaries

Konoha shinobi Shibi, Anko, and Hayate investigated a devastated battlefield and found evidence that Orochimaru had been involved. Akatsuki’s members discussed their failed attempt to capture the River Lord, formed new plans to hunt Orochimaru, and Pain met Obito after the meeting.

• Shibi led Anko and Hayate to investigate a huge battlefield, where Anko found half of one of Orochimaru’s snakes.
• Shibi concluded that the victors had concealed evidence and ordered the team to report the battle to the Hokage.
• Pain questioned Akatsuki’s members about their failed mission, and Kakuzu identified the River Lord as a member of an organization called God.
• Pain paired Sasori with Kakuzu and ordered them to gather at least two teams before confronting the God organization.
• Pain assigned Sasori and Kakuzu to hunt Orochimaru, then dismissed the meeting and stood at the tower in the drizzle.
• Obito appeared behind Pain through a distorted vortex, and Pain told him the mission had failed.

After Akatsuki’s mission failed, Obito and Pain discussed Yama, River Lord, and the need for more manpower. Hyuga Kagami studied Haku’s Ice Release and tested whether his Type B clone could fuse Water and Wind chakra, but his first attempt collapsed.

• Obito learned that Yama had vanished, River Lord had escaped, and both belonged to the God Organization, which Yama apparently led.
• Pain told Obito that Orochimaru had defected, and Obito concluded they needed more manpower.
• Hyuga Kagami examined the badly injured Type A clone, recorded its wounds, and destroyed it before transferring his soul into the Type B clone.
• Hyuga Kagami asked Haku to demonstrate Ice Release and recorded his chakra flow while Haku created an ice senbon and used Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
• Hyuga Kagami copied Haku’s hand seals and formed water curtains, but they fell apart when he tried to add Wind-nature chakra.

Hyuga Kagami investigated why his attempts to copy Haku’s Ice Release failed, then used the Tenseigan’s Soul Descent to experience Haku’s technique firsthand. After Haku successfully created an ice mirror, Hyuga Kagami returned to his laboratory with new insight into how to train in Ice Release.

• Hyuga Kagami questioned Haku about the difference between using Ice Release and Water Release, and learned that Ice Release required intense focus.
• Hyuga Kagami brought Haku to the Forest of Death, returned to his original body, and used Soul Descent to attach his soul to Haku.
• Hyuga Kagami urged Haku to use Ice Release, but Haku’s Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals failed to appear.
• Haku successfully used Ice Release: Ice Mirror Technique while Hyuga Kagami experienced the process through his body.
• Hyuga Kagami withdrew from Haku and returned to his secret laboratory, having gained a rough understanding of Ice Release training.

Hyuga Kagami realized that Ice Release required fusing Water and Wind chakra from the start, then joined Team 11 on a mission to escort Kumogakure’s peace delegation to Konoha. When the delegation arrived at the border, he noticed its members seemed unusually weak.

• Hyuga Kagami understood that true Ice Release required maintaining the fusion of Water-nature and Wind-nature chakra throughout the technique.
• Three months later, the Third Hokage assigned Kakashi and Team 11 to protect Kumogakure’s negotiating delegation on its journey through the Land of Fire.
• Hyuga Kagami switched from his B-type clone body to his Yin Release true body before Team 11 departed.
• After two weeks of travel, Team 11 reached the border and decided to protect the delegation from concealment without revealing themselves.
• The next day, Hyuga Kagami confirmed that twelve approaching shinobi appeared to be from Kumogakure, but found that only two had ordinary Jonin-level chakra and questioned the delegation’s strength.

Hyuga Kagami questioned Kumogakure’s sincerity as its delegation arrived in Konoha to sign a peace treaty, then visited Hizashi Hyuga and met young Neji. He saw that Neji had not yet received the Caged Bird Seal, which was due to be applied in a month, and left Hizashi grieving over his son’s Branch Family status.

• Hyuga Kagami, Kakashi, Guy, and Shisui questioned why Kumogakure sent a weak delegation, and Hyuga Kagami suspected the village had conflicting pro-war and pro-peace factions.
• Team 11 escorted the Kumogakure Delegation safely to Konoha, where villagers welcomed them and the Third Hokage granted the team a short vacation.
• Hyuga Kagami visited Hizashi Hyuga and met Hizashi’s young son, Neji, who introduced himself formally.
• Hyuga Kagami noticed that Neji had not yet received the Caged Bird Seal, and Hizashi explained that Neji would be branded when Hinata turned three in a month.
• Hizashi lamented that Neji was exceptionally talented but had been born into the Branch Family, while Neji asked his father what was wrong.

Hyuga Kagami warned Hizashi about the suspicious Kumogakure delegation and considered how to prevent the likely kidnapping of Hinata. Meanwhile, Geluoya received a secret scroll from an unseen contact, and Fugaku continued searching for Uchiha Shinichi.

• Hyuga Kagami praised Neji's talent and urged Hizashi to strengthen patrols around the clan grounds because he doubted Kumogakure's peace delegation.
• Hyuga Kagami decided that capturing the ninja who kidnapped Hinata alive could prevent the incident from escalating into war, but he did not know when Kumogakure would act.
• Geluoya met secretly with an unseen contact, received a scroll, and learned that he would not survive whether the plan succeeded or failed.
• An Anbu report told Fugaku that they had stopped Uchiha clan members from contacting the Kumogakure delegation.
• Fugaku ordered his clansman to keep trying to contact Kumogakure because he suspected the report that Shinichi had joined a bounty-ninja organization was false.

As Konoha celebrated peace, Hizashi watched Neji be taken into the Main Branch and struggled with the fate imposed on the branch family. When resentment sparked his Byakugan, Hiashi activated the Caged Bird Seal, leaving Hizashi in agony and warning the branch family not to forget its place.

• After the peace treaty was signed, Hizashi congratulated Hiashi on Hinata’s third birthday, and Hiashi took Neji into the Main Branch.
• Hyuga Kagami learned from Hizashi that the crippled branch family member Aoki had been imprisoned after his brother Aoba was executed for failing to protect a Main Branch member’s Byakugan.
• At the Main Branch residence, Hiashi trained Hinata while Hizashi told Neji that he was born to protect the Main Branch.
• Hizashi’s resentment toward Hinata and the Caged Bird Seal triggered his Byakugan and killing intent.
• Hiashi activated the Caged Bird Seal to stop Hizashi’s Byakugan, then released him with a warning to the branch family.

After witnessing the Caged Bird Seal, Hyuga Kagami agreed to become Neji’s instructor when Hizashi asked him. Later, at a festival gathering with his classmates, Kagami discussed the growing conflict between the Uchiha and the village before following a drunken Anko to the training ground.

• Hizashi apologized to Hyuga Kagami after they left the Main Branch estate and asked him to instruct Neji.
• Hyuga Kagami agreed to teach Neji if Hizashi still wanted him to in the future.
• Hyuga Kagami joined Guy, Anko, Hayate, Kurenai, Kakashi, Genma, Ibiki, and their classmates at a festival gathering.
• Kakashi told Hyuga Kagami that the Uchiha had been trying to contact the Kumogakure delegation and clashing with the Anbu.
• Anko challenged Hyuga Kagami while drunk and jumped out the tavern window, so he went after her.

Hyuga Kagami helped Anko vent her anger and confronted her feelings about Orochimaru. Later, he encountered Naruto and realized the boy possessed extraordinary chakra from several sources.

• Anko challenged Hyuga Kagami at a secluded training ground, and he easily deflected her attacks while letting her exhaust herself.
• After Anko admitted she hated Orochimaru, Hyuga Kagami asked whether she resented his defection or that he had left her behind, then urged her to grow stronger.
• Hyuga Kagami spotted Itachi happily eating three-colored dango with a girl wearing the Uchiha Clan crest and decided to buy some for Rin.
• Hyuga Kagami found Naruto waiting in line at Ichiraku Ramen, noticed an Anbu guarding him, and used his Byakugan to examine Naruto's immense chakra.
• Hyuga Kagami reflected that Naruto carried chakra from himself, the Nine-Tails, Minato, Kushina, and the reincarnated Asura, and called him the Child of Prophecy.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui discovered that Geluoya had used a Shadow Clone to cover his escape from the Kumogakure Delegation compound. They raced to the Hyuga compound and found Geluoya carrying Hinata away, with Hyuga Hiashi in pursuit, leaving Hyuga Kagami to intervene between them.

• Hyuga Kagami returned home after failing to buy dango, and Rin welcomed him with a celebratory meal.
• Anbu Team 11 began guarding the Kumogakure Delegation while Geluoya continued touring Konoha before eventually staying inside the compound.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui spotted a black-clad figure leaving the compound at night and confronted Geluoya, only to discover he was a Shadow Clone.
• Hyuga Kagami realized Geluoya's real body had escaped during another Anbu team's watch and hurried with Shisui to the Hyuga Clan compound.
• Hyuga Kagami saw Geluoya carrying Hinata while Hyuga Hiashi pursued him, and rushed between them.

Geluoya held Hinata hostage in the Hyuga Main Branch estate, and Hyuga Kagami, Hiashi, and Shisui learned that he was willing to die for his cause. Geluoya condemned the shinobi village system as the source of war and declared that Kumogakure would unify the shinobi world, while Shisui began casting genjutsu to restrain him.

• Hyuga Kagami warned Hiashi that Geluoya was the leader of the Kumogakure Delegation, and Geluoya pressed a kunai to the unconscious Hinata's throat.
• Geluoya cut Hinata's neck and said he had not come for the Byakugan; Hyuga Kagami realized that Geluoya intended to die.
• Geluoya called Konoha a cancer for allowing the shinobi village system to persist and blamed it for the escalation of war and the destruction of clans.
• Geluoya declared that Kumogakure would unify the shinobi world for the sake of peace, and Hyuga Kagami ordered Shisui to restrain him with genjutsu.

Geluoya staged his death at Hyuga Hiashi’s hands to provoke conflict between Konoha’s Hyuga and Uchiha clans and pressure Konoha into war or surrender. Hyuga Kagami removed the corpse, leaving Hiashi to deny the abduction as the Kumogakure delegation demanded a search.

• Geluoya resisted Shisui’s genjutsu with a sealing formula in his brain, then baited Hiashi into striking him while pretending to attack Hinata.
• Hyuga Kagami realized Geluoya had arranged his death to give Kumogakure’s radical faction leverage against Konoha and deepen the village’s internal divisions.
• As the delegation and Anbu approached, Hyuga Kagami took Geluoya’s corpse and told Hiashi to conceal the break-in.
• Hiashi ordered his clan members to restore the compound and keep silent, then denied seeing Geluoya when the delegation arrived.
• A Kumogakure Jonin accused the Hyuga of abducting Geluoya and demanded to search the compound.

The Kumogakure Jonin searched the Hyuga Main Branch residence for Geluoya, while Hyuga Kagami and Shisui carried Geluoya's corpse away from the clan grounds. As Shisui questioned the causes of war and Kumogakure's ambitions, Hyuga Kagami argued that ambition without sufficient strength was empty and warned that the ninja world was more complicated than it appeared.

• Hyuga Hiashi initially refused Kumogakure's demand to search the Hyuga grounds, but agreed after the Anbu captain urged him to preserve the peace.
• The Kumogakure Jonin and his subordinates searched the Hyuga Main Branch residence and found no trace of Geluoya or a battle.
• The Kumogakure Jonin sensed something and turned toward a distant location, while Hyuga Kagami and Shisui carried Geluoya's corpse toward the village's edge.
• Shisui asked Hyuga Kagami whether Geluoya's beliefs were right, and Hyuga Kagami said some of his criticisms of the ninja village system made sense.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui that the First Hokage had missed a chance to unify the ninja world and that distributing the Tailed Beasts had worsened conflicts.
• Hyuga Kagami dismissed Kumogakure's ambition to unify the ninja world as unsupported by sufficient strength and warned Shisui that the ninja world ran deeper than it seemed.

Hyuga Kagami sent Shisui back to the Kumogakure Delegation’s residence while he dealt with Geluoya’s corpse. As the Konoha Anbu and Kumogakure delegation tracked the abducted leader to a training ground, they found a mysterious masked figure sealing his body into a scroll.

• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui to use a transformed Shadow Clone to cover for him at the delegation’s residence, and Shisui left.
• The Kumogakure Jonin led the delegation and Konoha Anbu toward Geluoya’s location using the sensory formula on his body.
• The group found a cloaked, masked figure standing over Geluoya’s corpse at a remote training ground.
• The masked figure sealed Geluoya’s body into a scroll and remarked that the man with a fifty-million bounty had been weak.

Hyuga Kagami fled Konoha after framing Iwagakure for Geluoya’s murder and fighting off the Anbu pursuing him. After knocking out his fiancée Hyuga Rin at the outer wall, he was confronted by Kakashi and Guy.

• Hyuga Kagami abandoned his plan to control Geluoya’s corpse and blamed Iwagakure for the murder, citing its bounty.
• Hyuga Kagami broke through the Anbu’s coordinated attack and raced toward Konoha’s outer wall.
• Hyuga Kagami found Hyuga Rin guarding the wall, knocked her unconscious before she could identify him, and escaped over the wall.
• Kakashi and Guy blocked Hyuga Kagami’s path and ordered him to surrender.

Shisui returned to the Kumogakure Delegation’s quarters while Hyuga Kagami fought Kakashi and Guy in the forest after abducting Geluoya. Hiashi learned that the mysterious attacker had escaped the village, then sprayed tea when he heard the Hokage had personally pursued him.

• Shisui found Kakashi and Guy missing from their post and learned that the nearby Anbu had gone to search for the Kumogakure Delegation’s leader.
• Kakashi and Guy confronted Hyuga Kagami in the forest, but Kagami escaped Kakashi’s Earth Release wall and wounded Kakashi during their clash.
• Hiashi received reports that the Kumogakure Delegation’s leader had been attacked and that the mysterious attacker had escaped beyond the village wall.
• Hizashi tried to pursue the attacker, but Hiashi stopped him and continued listening to reports.
• A Hyuga clansman reported that the Hokage had personally pursued the mysterious attacker, and Hiashi sprayed out his tea.

Fugaku learned that Geluoya had been abducted and used the ensuing pursuit as a chance to contact the Kumogakure Delegation and investigate Shinichi. Meanwhile, Hyuga Kagami washed away his scent and escaped Kakashi and Guy, but Kakashi summoned eight ninja hounds to chase him.

• Fugaku learned Geluoya had been abducted and ordered his clansmen to find Shisui and determine what had happened.
• After hearing that the Third had joined the pursuit, Fugaku assembled the Police Force's Jonin squad to use the search as cover for contacting the Kumogakure Delegation.
• Danzo learned that the suspected abductor was a bounty ninja called River Lord and ordered Root to investigate his identity and allegiance.
• Hyuga Kagami used the Great Waterfall Technique to wash away the blood scent, then attacked Kakashi and Guy with three water dragons.
• Hyuga Kagami fled deeper into the forest, but Kakashi used the Fang Pursuit Technique to summon eight ninja hounds around him.

Hyuga Kagami’s Water Release clone escaped Kakashi, Guy, the Third Hokage, and the Kumogakure delegation by revealing an unusual Ice Release technique. The pursuers followed him, while Kakashi and Guy wondered why the real Kagami and Shisui had not appeared.

• Kakashi’s ninja hounds pinned Hyuga Kagami down, and Guy struck him with Leaf Whirlwind, sending him into a tree.
• Hyuga Kagami sensed a large group approaching, and the Third Hokage arrived with Konoha Anbu and the Kumogakure delegation.
• The Third Hokage demanded to know who had ordered the attack, and Hyuga Kagami claimed he had acted for the black-market bounty.
• Hyuga Kagami used Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, surprising the assembled ninja with a line of mirrors that carried him away.
• The Third Hokage, Konoha Anbu, Kakashi, Guy, and the Kumogakure delegation pursued Hyuga Kagami, while Kakashi and Guy wondered why Kagami and Shisui had not arrived.

Hyuga Kagami used his mastery of Ice Release to turn Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals into a fast, airborne defense and escape technique. As the Third Hokage pursued the mysterious ice mirrors, he summoned Enma and ordered him to transform into the Adamantine Staff.

• Hyuga Kagami mastered Ice Release through the Tenseigan’s Soul Descent Technique and developed a mobility-focused application of Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
• Hyuga Kagami found that the floating ice mirrors let him move quickly above the terrain while shielding him from most attacks, though they consumed substantial chakra.
• The Third Hokage pursued the ice mirrors and worried that Geluoya’s secret movements might be connected to a scheme between Kumogakure and the Uchiha Clan.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma and asked him to transform into the Adamantine Staff to confront the enemy hiding inside the ice mirrors.

Hyuga Kagami fought the Third Hokage, using fire, water, and ice techniques to create rain that would strengthen his Ice Release. With the Anbu withdrawn and his allies clear of the battlefield, he began his next attack against the Hokage.

• Enma transformed into the Adamantine Staff and carried the Third Hokage after Hyuga Kagami’s Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, where the Hokage unleashed Multiple Fire Dragon Flame Bombs.
• Hyuga Kagami escaped the flames with a Water Clone Technique and faced the Third Hokage, then attacked with the Great Waterfall Technique.
• Hyuga Kagami raised and froze a massive water wall, using the resulting cold air and the Hokage’s hot fire-created air to bring rain clouds over the battlefield.
• The Third Hokage ordered the Anbu, including the Shadow Guard, to withdraw and surround the fighting area while Hyuga Kagami waited for Kakashi and Guy to retreat.
• Hyuga Kagami used Ice Release: Ice Shigure, freezing the raindrops and transforming them into sharp ice senbon.