Recaps

Hyuga Kazuya mastered Sage Art Chakra, used it to advance Byakugan research, and built a new force by transplanting Byakugan into Root shinobi. He also experimented on White Boar and left the transplants loyal to him, while the threat of Madara and the coming war remained unresolved.

• Hyuga Kazuya saturated his Sage Body with natural energy, synthesized Sage Art Chakra, and used clones to store it while he planned how to locate Madara Uchiha.
• Hyuga Kazuya discovered that the many-eyed Octopus could nurture powerful Byakugan, and his Root researchers produced hundreds of eyes while its strange allure affected them.
• Hyuga Kazuya ordered Danzo to support the Akatsuki discreetly and gathered ten Root shinobi for Byakugan transplants, including his former instructor Kanishi Tokushi.
• Hyuga Kazuya told Orochimaru that the Sage of Six Paths might have influenced their research, then offered to teach him Sage Mode in exchange for energy research.
• Hyuga Kazuya abandoned his plan to transplant Byakugan into the enormous White Boar, fought it using his giant form, and learned that the Slug Sage had taught it the later Eight Gates.
• Hyuga Kazuya tested natural energy and Sage Art Chakra on White Boar, briefly petrifying it and exhausting its chakra and vitality before reviving it.
• Hyuga Kazuya transplanted a powerful pair of Byakugan into Mata and secretly placed a Caged Bird seal on him, leaving Mata convinced that Kazuya had eased the seal's restraints.
• Hyuga Kazuya confirmed that all ten Root shinobi had accepted their Byakugan transplants, applied Caged Bird Seals they had placed beyond the Hyuga Main Family's control, and officially recorded them as Hyuga clan members.

Hyuga Kazuya took control of Kirigakure through Danzo, then rescued Minato Namikaze’s team from Madara Uchiha and defeated Madara. The arc ended with Kazuya preserving Madara’s body and transplanting his Rinnegan into the Octopus while preparing for a threat from the moon.

• Hyuga Kazuya formed Root’s Moon Squad, trained his young disciples at Rōran, and used rumors to draw out and capture White Zetsu No. 233.
• Hyuga Kazuya attacked Kirigakure, killed the Third Mizukage, and helped Danzo impersonate Karatachi Yagura and take control of the village.
• White Zetsu lured Minato Namikaze’s squad into an ambush, and Hyuga Kazuya used the Flying Thunder God Technique to rescue them before confronting Madara Uchiha.
• Hyuga Kazuya fought Madara’s Susanoo and Planetary Devastation, escaped the resulting giant sphere, and killed Madara with the Divine Spear.
• Hyuga Kazuya captured Black Zetsu and ordered him to support the Moon Landing Company and gather research, then told Minato that Madara had wielded the Rinnegan.
• Hyuga Kazuya returned to Root, preserved Madara’s corpse, transplanted the Rinnegan into the Octopus, and prepared a welcome-back banquet for Minato’s Squad.

Hyuga Kazuya built a spacecraft, awakened his Tenseigan, and conquered the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon. Back on Earth, he prepared to take control of the Hyuga Clan as war approached Konoha.

• Kazuya developed an improved Chakra Cube using Gelel Stone and arranged for the Dragon Vein to charge hundreds of them.
• Kazuya and Kosaka Isami designed the Type-003 Space-Air Plane, and Kazuya used its first completed unit to travel toward the moon.
• Kazuya’s cloned Byakugan evolved into a Tenseigan, and he tested its powers before launching into space and surveying the moon.
• Kazuya invaded the lunar Otsutsuki settlement, destroyed the Elder’s forces, and killed the Elder in battle.
• Kazuya discovered the Great Tenseigan’s corruption, captured the surviving Otsutsuki, and forced the Great Elder to submit with a redesigned Caged Bird seal.
• Kazuya returned to Earth, learned the great villages were moving toward war, and used the Flying Thunder God Expressway to bring Danzo to Kirigakure.
• Hiruzen prepared Konoha for the approaching conflict while Kazuya completed the Caged Bird: Half-Life Cursed Seal and considered using it to gather chakra.

Hyuga Kazuya took control of the Hyuga Clan and used Memory Transfer, cloned Byakugan, and Personal Panels to accelerate Konoha’s growth as Minato Namikaze consolidated power. The Ninja Reform Alliance declared war on the Old Era Alliance and quickly captured Kumogakure, though Killer B and the Eight-Tails remained a major threat.

• Hyuga Kazuya seized control of the Hyuga Clan, replaced its Caged Bird Seals with improved versions, and promoted Half-Life across Konoha.
• Konoha’s forces defeated the Third Raikage’s advance and secured Sunagakure’s surrender, ending the Third Shinobi World War, while Minato Namikaze later won the Hokage election.
• Hyuga Kazuya used cloned Byakugan to strengthen his Tenseigan and help Momona awaken her own, then created Memory Transfer Ninjutsu and the Personal Panel.
• Hyuga Kazuya used Memory Transfer to reshape people and secretly changed thousands of Konoha’s ninja as Minato Namikaze brought the Land of Fire under Konoha’s de facto control.
• The other great villages and the daimyo formed the Old Era Alliance, while Konoha’s technologies rapidly expanded the strength of the Ninja Reform Alliance.
• Minato Namikaze announced that 93 percent of the Ninja Reform Alliance had voted for war against the Old Era Alliance, and its forces mobilized.
• Kakashi’s forces struck Kumogakure with a Spider Puppet Cannon, and the alliance’s humanoid puppets destroyed the village’s chakra cannons.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails, but ten Sealing Squads bound it with Super Adamantine Sealing Chains as the puppet squads took control of Kumogakure, leaving only the Raikage Building.