Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kazuya repeatedly cultivated the Temple of Fire’s Sage Clan Secret Technique while using the Life Breath Technique, absorbing natural energy and improving his physical abilities and Chakra. He wondered whether his affinity with nature had become sufficient to synthesize Sage Art Chakra, but he had no way to measure it.

• Hyuga Kazuya felt natural energy vanish after cultivating the secret art and checked his body for any problems.
• Hyuga Kazuya resumed cultivation and absorbed natural energy for half an hour, enduring repeated waves of pain until his body reached saturation.
• Hyuga Kazuya sensed that his physical abilities had improved by roughly half a month of training and that his Chakra had increased to sixteen units.
• Hyuga Kazuya formed a powerful Rasengan and then retracted it with precise Chakra control.
• Hyuga Kazuya celebrated absorbing at least a hundred strands of natural energy, then wondered whether his nature affinity could now let him synthesize Sage Art Chakra.

Hyuga Kazuya decided to keep strengthening his body through the Temple of Fire Sage Clan Secret Technique before attempting to synthesize Sage Art Chakra. He teased Kakashi on their way to find Minato, then promised to teach him a physical-enhancement ninjutsu.

• Hyuga Kazuya reasoned that Sage Transformation had a limit and decided to train until his body stopped growing before attempting to synthesize Sage Art Chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya ran into Kakashi and teased him by removing his mask and pulling several strands of his white hair.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked Kakashi about his Flying Thunder God Technique training, and Kakashi stayed silent because he still could not perform it.
• Hyuga Kazuya offered to teach Kakashi a ninjutsu to improve his physical fitness, and Kakashi eagerly accepted.
• Hyuga Kazuya and Kakashi set off to find Teacher Minato and practice the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Hyuga Kazuya reached the limit of the Sage Body he had cultivated with the Temple of Fire technique and began synthesizing Sage Art Chakra. With Anrokuzan standing by to intervene if he began turning to stone, Kazuya steadily balanced the three energies and found the process going smoothly.

• Hyuga Kazuya's daily Temple of Fire training more than doubled his physical abilities and Chakra reserves over five days, while his natural energy absorption increased dramatically.
• Hyuga Kazuya traveled to a remote mountain cave and cultivated until he could no longer absorb natural energy, concluding that his Sage Body had reached its limit.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked Anrokuzan to wake him if his body started turning to stone, then prepared to attempt synthesizing Sage Art Chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya drew in natural energy and combined it with spiritual and physical energy in a 1:1:1 ratio.
• Hyuga Kazuya controlled the three energies as they fused, and his talent and cultivated Sage Body made the synthesis proceed smoothly.

Hyuga Kazuya successfully synthesized Sage Art Chakra and found that his Sage Art: Wind Release was about five times stronger than its ordinary counterpart. Confident that Sage Mode would let him face Madara soon, he sent clones to gather natural energy elsewhere after the local supply grew thin.

• Hyuga Kazuya tested ordinary Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, then used Sage Art Chakra to blast pebbles away with far greater force.
• Hyuga Kazuya decided he would face Madara in a few days and boasted about combining his powerful modes.
• Hyuga Kazuya noticed he had no Sage Mode eye markings, then concluded his ultimate Sage Body simply differed from ordinary Sage Modes.
• Hyuga Kazuya dismissed Anrokuzan and sent several clones to nearby mountaintops to gather natural energy and store Sage Art Chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya observed that the nearby natural energy had grown thin and estimated the damaged vegetation would need a few days to recover.

Hyuga Kazuya stored Sage Art Chakra while preparing to find Madara Uchiha and clear the game. He and his clones devised several ways to draw Madara or Black Zetsu out, prioritizing investigating Kirigakure and spreading rumors about reaching the moon.

• Hyuga Kazuya absorbed natural energy for several days and stored Sage Art Chakra in five clones.
• Hyuga Kazuya and his clones realized they did not know where Madara Uchiha was hiding.
• Hyuga Kazuya and his clones discussed using Root to search for Madara, but rejected it because Madara and Black Zetsu could learn they were being sought.
• Hyuga Kazuya and his clones identified leads involving Obito's incident at Kagami Bridge, Kirigakure, rumors about the moon, and threats to exile the Tailed Beasts.
• Hyuga Kazuya and his clones ranked investigating Kirigakure and luring Black Zetsu with moon rumors as their top plans, while reserving the other approaches as backups.

Hyuga Kazuya returned to Konoha and realized that some mysterious force had been blocking him and his colleagues from considering ways to clone the Byakugan. Suspecting Sage Mode had lifted the interference, he resolved to continue the research and ordered Root researchers to replicate the embryo a thousand times.

• Hyuga Kazuya and his clones decided to return to Konoha while having Root spread rumors and planning a later trip to Kirigakure.
• Hyuga Kazuya entered Root’s laboratory and reconsidered how to improve the Cloned Byakugan with Tenseigan Chakra, Yang Release, natural energy, and Sage Art Chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya realized that he, Orochimaru, and the laboratory researchers had all been fixated on improving the culture medium while overlooking other methods.
• Hyuga Kazuya suspected a powerful force, possibly the Sage of Six Paths, had interfered with their thoughts, and wondered whether Sage Mode had freed him from its influence.
• Hyuga Kazuya refused to abandon the Byakugan research and ordered a Root researcher to replicate the embryo one thousand times.

Hyuga Kazuya made a breakthrough in cloning Byakugan and began further experiments to strengthen and nurture them. Meanwhile, Minato Namikaze formed a new squad with Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Rin Nohara, determined to keep Obito and Rin from dying as they had in the future he visited.

• Hyuga Kazuya used a thousand Byakugan embryos to test Sage Art Chakra, Yang Release Medical Ninjutsu, and Tenseigan Chakra in different combinations.
• After a day of experiments, Hyuga Kazuya produced cloned Byakugan with strength ratings as high as 95, then assigned clones to develop a nurturing method and continue strengthening them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Minato Namikaze that two graduates should join his squad because Hyuga Kazuya had become a researcher and stopped taking missions.
• Minato Namikaze chose Uchiha Obito and Rin Nohara, resolving to protect them despite knowing from his trip to the future that they would die.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved Minato Namikaze's choices, forming a new squad with Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Rin Nohara.

Kakashi, Obito, and Rin officially joined Minato's Squad as the Shinobi World War approached, while Hyuga Kazuya perfected a method for cloning powerful Byakugan. When he went to inspect his clones' research, he opened the laboratory door and saw something unprecedented.

• Kakashi, Obito, and Rin greeted one another as they officially joined Minato's Squad.
• Minato Namikaze had the three introduce themselves and tested their strength, formally reestablishing his squad.
• Hyuga Kazuya developed a method that produced a Byakugan with a strength of 110 and resolved to use his endlessly reproducible eyes to strengthen Root.
• Hyuga Kazuya carried the new Byakugan to another laboratory to check the results of his clones' research.
• Hyuga Kazuya felt an unsettling yet comforting sensation, opened the laboratory door, and witnessed a sight he had never seen before.

Hyuga Kazuya inspected the clones’ successful octopus-based creature, which could nurture and awaken hundreds of Byakugan and strengthen their energy. He thanked the clones, dismissed them, and absorbed their research memories before planning to build a Byakugan production line in a few days.

• Hyuga Kazuya arrived at the laboratory and found his clones obsessively admiring a massive, many-eyed octopus in a cultivation tank.
• Hyuga Kazuya briefly shared the clones’ strange fascination with the creature before Sage Art Chakra restored his clarity.
• A research clone explained that the octopus had been created using octopus cells, Yang Release, and trace Hyuga Clan cells after other biological cells performed worse.
• Hyuga Kazuya read the research files and learned the creature could nurture and awaken hundreds of Byakugan while enhancing their energy.
• Hyuga Kazuya thanked the clones, announced plans to build a Byakugan production line in a few days, and dismissed them.
• Hyuga Kazuya absorbed and studied the research clones’ memories and experimental records.

Hyuga Kazuya realized the Octopus’s strange beauty was affecting everyone who saw it and suspected it had a powerful genjutsu ability. After confirming Sage Art Chakra had helped him resist its influence, he turned to look at the Octopus again.

• Hyuga Kazuya found eerie expressions in his clones’ memories and realized they had been fascinated by the Octopus.
• Hyuga Kazuya recalled that Sage Art Chakra had coincided with him regaining control of himself.
• Hyuga Kazuya summoned a Shadow Clone to look at the Octopus, then dispelled it after it became entranced and praised the creature.
• Hyuga Kazuya concluded that the Octopus’s many eyes likely gave it a powerful genjutsu ability and that his Sage Body helped him resist it.
• Hyuga Kazuya turned and looked directly at the Octopus again.

Hyuga Kazuya confirmed that a barrier weakened the strange octopus’s alluring genjutsu and judged it a promising but dangerous platform for nurturing Byakugan. He agreed to begin large-scale Byakugan cloning, though the first batch’s production time remained uncertain.

• Hyuga Kazuya enclosed the octopus’s tank in a barrier and used a Shadow Clone to confirm that its allure had weakened.
• Hyuga Kazuya assessed the octopus as a promising Byakugan-nurturing platform and briefly fantasized about experimenting on Whitey the pig.
• A clone from another laboratory asked Hyuga Kazuya whether they should start the first large-scale cloning operation, and he agreed.
• The clone estimated Root could organize cloning on a scale of several hundred, while noting Hyuga Kazuya would need to handle key stages requiring Sage Art Chakra and Tenseigan Chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked how long it would take for the first batch to come off the line.

Hyuga Kazuya completed the first large-scale batch of cloned Byakugan and prepared to test the strange, eye-covered Octopus. After resisting its alluring influence with Sage Art Chakra, he sent a Spirit Ball into it to test whether it was conscious.

• Hyuga Kazuya and his clone began large-scale Byakugan production after confirming the Octopus could nurture the eyes to maturity.
• Three days later, Hyuga Kazuya’s first batch yielded 300 surviving Byakugan, including 222 that met the required strength of 110.
• Hyuga Kazuya kept some Byakugan for experiments, dismissed his clones to rest, and learned that their work had heavily depleted the Great Tenseigan’s energy reserves.
• Hyuga Kazuya took 100 pairs of Byakugan to the Octopus laboratory and opened the cultivation tank.
• The Octopus’s strange beauty nearly affected Hyuga Kazuya, but his circulating Sage Art Chakra restored his clarity.
• Hyuga Kazuya sent a Spirit Ball into the Octopus to determine whether its alluring effect was passive or consciously controlled.

Hyuga Kazuya replaced some of the Octopus’s eyes with Byakugan and secured it in the cultivation tank, unaware that it watched him leave. He then learned that Danzo had investigated the Akatsuki Organization in the Land of Rain, whose leaders were suspected to be Jiraiya’s disciples.

• Hyuga Kazuya used chakra arms to replace part of the Octopus’s eyes with Byakugan, then resealed and reinforced the cultivation tank.
• After Hyuga Kazuya left the laboratory, the Octopus continued watching him through the facility’s barriers.
• Hyuga Kazuya collected the remaining Byakugan and asked a guard where Danzo was.
• Hyuga Kazuya discovered that Danzo had investigated the Akatsuki Organization after acting on Kazuya’s earlier claim about an attack.
• Hyuga Kazuya read Danzo’s report, which described Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan as the Akatsuki’s leaders and suspected them of being Jiraiya’s disciples.

Hyuga Kazuya directed Danzo to treat the current Akatsuki Organization with goodwill and to support the cloning program. He selected ten Root shinobi for Kekkei Genkai transplant experiments, and they followed him despite fearing the surgery.

• Hyuga Kazuya reviewed Root's intelligence on the Akatsuki Organization and told Danzo to remain friendly and offer appropriate assistance when needed.
• Hyuga Kazuya told Danzo to secure cloning materials and facilities, then requested ten trustworthy Root shinobi with clean backgrounds.
• Danzo brought ten commoner Root shinobi, including four with roughly Jonin-level strength, to meet Hyuga Kazuya.
• Hyuga Kazuya appointed the ten as his squad and ordered them to undergo transplanted Kekkei Genkai surgery one at a time.
• Though the ten feared the surgery and believed its success rate was zero, they followed Hyuga Kazuya to the side hall because they knew they could not refuse.

Hyuga Kazuya transplanted Byakugan into ten Root ninja and ordered Danzo to watch Sunagakure closely. After the operations succeeded, he left the injured ninja to recover and began preparing for a possible war.

• Hyuga Kazuya had ten Root ninja remove their masks and sit for Byakugan transplants, recognizing his former instructor Kanishi Tokushi among them.
• Hyuga Kazuya replaced the strongest ninja’s eyes with Byakugan without anesthesia and bandaged him to monitor for rejection.
• Hyuga Kazuya completed transplants for all ten Root ninja, who agreed to rest while he arranged for their care.
• Danzo reported that Orochimaru had taken Anko as a disciple and Minato’s team had gained two members, prompting Hyuga Kazuya to suspect the Third Shinobi War was approaching.
• Hyuga Kazuya ordered Danzo to monitor Sunagakure discreetly over the next few months.

Hyuga Kazuya decided to keep Orochimaru as a research partner but shift his focus from cloning Byakugan to energy research. After resting and taking a day off, Kazuya spent time with Momona, then learned that Minato and his squad were away on a mission.

• Hyuga Kazuya reviewed his cooperation with Orochimaru and concluded that Orochimaru remained useful, though less essential, and should not be controlled with the Spirit Ball.
• Hyuga Kazuya decided to tell Orochimaru that he had successfully cloned the Byakugan and to suggest researching energy instead.
• Hyuga Kazuya reflected that he was not ready to unify the ninja world because he lacked the ability to govern it well afterward.
• Hyuga Kazuya slept in after more than ten days without proper rest, then took the day off without asking Orochimaru for leave.
• Hyuga Kazuya spent several hours with Momona, then went to see Minato and Kakashi but found that Minato's Squad was away on a mission.

Hyuga Kazuya told Orochimaru that Root's laboratory had successfully produced a Cloned Byakugan with strength 110, then suggested their research had been subtly influenced by an outside force. He identified the Sage of Six Paths as a possible culprit and began to explain how he had escaped the influence.

• Hyuga Kazuya searched for Tsunade but learned she was away from the village, then went to visit Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kazuya told Orochimaru that Root's laboratory had succeeded in cloning the Byakugan, achieving strength 110.
• Hyuga Kazuya hinted that the researchers had been steered toward relying on the culture solution, shocking Orochimaru into realizing they might have been manipulated.
• Hyuga Kazuya set up barriers and named the Sage of Six Paths as his suspected source of the influence, while admitting he had no proof.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked Orochimaru whether he wanted to know how he had broken free of the influence.

Hyuga Kazuya offered to teach Orochimaru his Sage Mode in exchange for researching chakra-based energy systems, while warning him that he knew his ambitions and could direct Danzo to assist him. The next day, Kazuya went to test his final pair of Byakugan on Big White Boar, hoping the transplant might create a new pig lineage.

• Hyuga Kazuya explained that his Sage Mode used natural energy and agreed to teach it to Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked Orochimaru to research chakra energy storage and transmission in exchange for the technique.
• Hyuga Kazuya warned Orochimaru that Sage Mode could extend his lifespan and strengthen his soul, then told him to seek Danzo's help under Kazuya's orders.
• Orochimaru understood the warning and agreed to cooperate with Hyuga Kazuya.
• The next day, Hyuga Kazuya went to a forest outside the village to transplant his last pair of Byakugan into Big White Boar and see whether it would develop a Kekkei Genkai.

Hyuga Kazuya summoned his Ninja Beast, Big White Boar, and was startled by how enormous it had become. He realized its giant eyes made his plan to transplant a Byakugan impractical, and the chapter ended with him giving up and deciding to feed it instead.

• Hyuga Kazuya summoned Big White Boar and discovered that the beast had grown to around ten meters tall and more than twenty meters long.
• Big White Boar excitedly leaped around Kazuya, crushing trees until Kazuya used the Mysterious Peacock Method to make a giant palm that frightened it into lying down.
• Kazuya realized Big White Boar's enormous eyes were too large for the Byakugan he had intended to transplant.
• Kazuya asked whether Big White Boar could change its size, but the boar shook its head.
• Kazuya gave up on the transplant plan and decided to feed Big White Boar when his clone returned with food.

Hyuga Kazuya tested White Boar’s toughness and learned that the giant Ninja Beast had mastered the fifth gate after an encounter with Slug Sage. He transformed with the Mysterious Peacock Method into a towering blue-flamed giant and charged White Boar to begin their fight.

• Hyuga Kazuya struck White Boar with increasing strength and found that his normal punches barely affected the giant pig.
• White Boar told Hyuga Kazuya that he could open five gates, surprising him because he had only taught White Boar the first three.
• Hyuga Kazuya identified White Boar’s description of a huge, white creature with blue stripes and tentacles as Slug Sage.
• When White Boar refused to talk and leaped away from his food, Hyuga Kazuya chased him, intending to test himself against a giant opponent.
• Hyuga Kazuya formed the Mysterious Peacock Method: Super Invincible Ultraman Tiga, grew to about twenty meters tall, and charged White Boar.