Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze and the Third Raikage clashed with their strongest techniques, leaving both injured and the battlefield shaken. Minato recovered with the Half-Life Seal customized by Hyuga Kazuya and headed back toward the Third Raikage, whose elite ninja arrived as he assessed the fight.

• Minato Namikaze sent Kakashi to support the other battlefronts and attacked the Third Raikage with Sage Art: Super: Great Ball Rasengan.
• The Third Raikage predicted Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God ambush and met the Rasengan with Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite, causing a massive explosion.
• Minato Namikaze escaped the collision but suffered a pierced chest before the Half-Life Seal restored most of his injuries.
• Danzo and Kakashi found Minato Namikaze, and the three headed toward the Third Raikage after warning that he might still be dangerous.
• The Third Raikage suppressed his internal injuries and considered his next move as Cloud's elite ninja reached his side.

Danzo and Minato forced the Third Raikage to retreat, and Kumogakure later sought peace after suffering heavy losses. Minato helped pressure Iwagakure into peace talks while Konoha refused Sunagakure’s overtures, leaving Rasa to decide whether to accept Konoha’s severe terms.

• Danzo stopped Minato from attacking recklessly, then threatened to hold off the injured Third Raikage while Minato killed Kumogakure’s troops; the Third Raikage ordered a retreat to protect his forces.
• Danzo declined to pursue Kumogakure, and Minato left to fight on other fronts after they discussed using Konoha’s advantage against Iwagakure and Sunagakure.
• The Third Raikage learned that the Half-Life Seal had helped cause Kumogakure’s poor casualty ratio and ordered his Anbu to study the seal and find its creator.
• Kumogakure and Iwagakure proposed peace talks after their losses mounted, while Konoha refused Sunagakure’s peace offer and continued demanding concessions.
• Rasa complained that Konoha’s proposed terms would leave Sunagakure little more than a Konoha branch, and Chiyo told him the village’s future rested on his decision.

After Sunagakure accepted Konoha’s harsh terms and ended the war, Minato Namikaze began building support to force Hiruzen Sarutobi to step down. With Jiraiya neutral, the Uchiha backing him, and Hyuga Kazuya promising further help, Minato moved closer to becoming Hokage.

• Rasa signed Konoha’s demands, and Sunagakure’s surrender ended the Third Shinobi World War.
• Minato returned to Konoha, resented Hiruzen’s meager rewards and verbal promise to nominate him as Hokage, and resolved to pursue the position.
• Minato persuaded Jiraiya to remain neutral in the struggle over Hiruzen’s leadership.
• Minato told Hyuga Kazuya that the Uchiha had agreed to support him while the Ino-Shika-Cho clans would stay neutral.
• Kazuya assured Minato that the Hyuga Clan would not oppose him and urged him to seek Danzo’s support, saying Danzo would help.
• Minato resolved that becoming Hokage was only his first step.

Hyuga Kazuya chose to prioritize developing Memory Transfer ninjutsu and resumed his research as Spring Festival approached. Meanwhile, Minato Namikaze won Konoha’s election for Fourth Hokage by a wide margin, leaving the village energized by his vision for the future.

• Hyuga Kazuya reviewed possible approaches to mental development and chose Memory Transfer because he was familiar with handling acquired memories.
• Hyuga Kazuya remembered his Golden Finger and gathered materials to begin researching Memory Transfer ninjutsu.
• Half a month later, Hiruzen Sarutobi’s resignation and the Fourth Hokage election drew attention across Konoha and the Shinobi World.
• Fugaku Uchiha received eighty-eight votes, and Orochimaru received fifty-eight votes in the election.
• Minato Namikaze won with more than two hundred votes, while Orochimaru congratulated him on his victory.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze gave speeches, and Minato’s promises of change won over more of the gathered shinobi.

As Minato Namikaze prepared for his inauguration, Kazuya spent the winter festival with Momona and checked on the cloned Byakugan nearing maturity. He left the clones to develop, continued researching, and headed out with Uncle to attend Minato’s ceremony.

• Minato Namikaze completed his handover with Hiruzen Sarutobi and prepared to formally become the Fourth Hokage.
• Kazuya and Momona sampled food along Konoha’s crowded Snack Street, then Kazuya told her to rest because he had something important to give her in a few days.
• At the Root Research Institute, Kazuya confirmed that all eight thousand cloned Byakugan were developing properly and expected them to mature in about three days.
• Kazuya reflected on his mysterious Enlightenment ability and continued working on his research and Memory Transfer Ninjutsu, making no progress overnight.
• Kazuya returned home the next morning and joined Uncle to go to Minato Namikaze’s inauguration ceremony.

Minato Namikaze became the Fourth Hokage after delivering a speech that won over Konoha’s crowd, while Hyuga Kazuya discussed his ambitions and unconventional plans with his uncle. On Spring Festival night, Kazuya brought Momona to the Root Research Institute and harvested 500 mature Byakugan cloned from her genes.

• Minato Namikaze was inaugurated as the Fourth Hokage and stirred the crowd with a speech about peace and a better world.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi felt relieved as Minato gained the crowd’s admiration, while the Daimyo grew wary and considered acting secretly.
• Hyuga Kazuya told his uncle that he intended to unify the Shinobi World, but would not control everyone, and mentioned unconventional methods he had been researching.
• Kazuya inspected the Cloned Byakugan at the Root Research Institute and celebrated Spring Festival in Konoha.
• Kazuya used Flying Thunder God to bring Momona to the underground cloning chamber, where his Shadow Clones extracted 500 mature Byakugan cloned from her genes.

Hyuga Kazuya gave Momona five hundred cloned Byakugan so she could absorb their pupil power and work toward awakening the Tenseigan. After seeing her successfully absorb one, he returned to his underground factory and began absorbing his own supply of 7,500 cloned Byakugan.

• Momona arrived at the laboratory, where Hyuga Kazuya revealed five hundred cloned Byakugan made from her genes and explained that the Tenseigan was the Byakugan's evolution.
• Hyuga Kazuya gave Momona a cloned Byakugan, and she sensed its pupil power and slowly absorbed it into her eyes.
• Momona noticed her vision and Byakugan had improved, while Hyuga Kazuya observed that her absorption was slower and less efficient than his.
• Hyuga Kazuya left Momona to continue absorbing the remaining cloned Byakugan, warning her to monitor her physical condition.
• Hyuga Kazuya returned to the underground factory, used Shadow Clones to remove his 7,500 cloned Byakugan, and began absorbing their pupil power to strengthen his Tenseigan.

After absorbing all 7,500 Cloned Byakugan, Hyuga Kazuya’s Tenseigan grew dramatically stronger and revealed Space Strings that he could manipulate for spatial travel. He tested its spatial leap by appearing beside Momona, then took her home to rest after she absorbed ninety-three Cloned Byakugan.

• Hyuga Kazuya absorbed all 7,500 Cloned Byakugan in twelve hours, increasing his Tenseigan’s power about twenty-five times.
• Hyuga Kazuya discovered that his Tenseigan let him see and manipulate Space Strings, which could enable spatial movement and other space powers.
• Hyuga Kazuya used the Tenseigan’s spatial leap to appear beside Momona in the laboratory, startling her with his powerful aura.
• Momona told Hyuga Kazuya she had absorbed ninety-three Cloned Byakugan and felt energetic, but had noticed no signs of advancement.
• Hyuga Kazuya encouraged Momona to keep absorbing the eyes, then stopped her for the night and used spatial leap to take her home.

Hyuga Kazuya reflected on Momona’s Tenseigan awakening and Minato Namikaze’s push to free Konoha from the Land of Fire’s control. He entered Enlightenment in his safe house and began working on a perfect, side-effect-free Memory Transfer Ninjutsu.

• Momona awakened the Tenseigan after absorbing 432 Cloned Byakugan, reaching strength close to pseudo-Six Paths level.
• Hyuga Kazuya concluded that Momona’s success had revealed a path for the Hyuga Clan to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Minato Namikaze sought financial and political autonomy for Konoha, prompting the Land of Fire’s upper ranks to hire bounty hunters and rogue shinobi.
• Hyuga Kazuya postponed cloning more Byakugan until after Enlightenment and went to his safe house to prepare.
• Hyuga Kazuya entered Enlightenment and chose to create a perfect, safe, side-effect-free Memory Transfer Ninjutsu.

During Enlightenment, Hyuga Kazuya completed and refined Memory Transfer Ninjutsu Version 6.0, then began creating a status-display system for himself and the future Shinobi World. He finished the Personal Panel but could not test it while separated from his body, so he spent his remaining Enlightenment time optimizing it.

• Hyuga Kazuya created Memory Transfer Ninjutsu Version 1.0 and rapidly upgraded it through Version 6.0 to meet his standards for safety, compatibility, and low energy use.
• Hyuga Kazuya decided to create a system that could display personal condition, learning progress, and skill proficiency.
• Hyuga Kazuya designed the system as a Personal Panel built on the Caged Bird Seal, using illusion techniques, Yin Release, and Yang Release abilities.
• Hyuga Kazuya completed the Personal Panel but realized he could not use ninjutsu while separated from his body in Enlightenment.
• Hyuga Kazuya used his remaining time to continue optimizing the Personal Panel.

During his annual Enlightenment, Hyuga Kazuya connected with a vast will named Luo, which confirmed it had sent him to the Shinobi World and given him Enlightenment so he could live well. Back in the world, he recreated and installed his Personal Panel, then pondered what Luo meant by his existence helping it.

• Hyuga Kazuya used his final seconds in the void to contact an unknown will, which identified itself as Luo and confirmed it had given him Enlightenment and sent him to the Hokage world so he could live well.
• When time ran out, Hyuga Kazuya returned to the Shinobi World and confirmed that he retained the memories and knowledge from creating the Memory Transfer Ninjutsu and Personal Panel.
• Hyuga Kazuya recreated the Personal Panel, installed it by swallowing its chip, and customized its display to show his name, condition, and strength evaluation.
• Hyuga Kazuya questioned why Luo had chosen him and speculated that he might serve as a marker for Luo or that Luo was warning him about danger.

Hyuga Kazuya tested how far the Tenseigan's spatial jump could reach, traveled from Mars to Proxima Centauri, and concluded that the Byakugan might enable the Otsutsuki Clan's interstellar journeys. Back on Earth, he began testing his Memory Transfer Ninjutsu by implanting basic Gentle Fist memories in a company employee.

• Hyuga Kazuya scanned Earth for danger, found none, and decided to accelerate his plans to unify the Shinobi World.
• Hyuga Kazuya used the Tenseigan to jump from Konoha to Mars, searched the planet for life, and found water but no living things.
• Hyuga Kazuya established a spatial coordinate near Jupiter and then traveled to Proxima Centauri, where he explored planets and collected extraterrestrial materials.
• Hyuga Kazuya theorized that the Byakugan allowed the Otsutsuki Clan to travel between stars and resolved to give the Hyuga Clan the same capability.
• Hyuga Kazuya transferred memories of basic Gentle Fist techniques to a company employee, who began performing the movements despite his confusion.

Hyuga Kazuya used Memory Transfer to reshape Yasen and twelve others into committed supporters of a new era, then sent them to learn how to guide the people. Meanwhile, Minato Namikaze’s conflict with the Land of Fire’s Daimyo and nobles ended with Konoha taking control of Kyoto City and the country, leaving the Daimyo system as little more than a façade.

• Hyuga Kazuya transferred Gentle Fist memories to an employee, then implanted memories that transformed him into an idealistic supporter of the new era.
• The employee, Yasen, brought twelve villagers to Hyuga Kazuya, who used Memory Transfer to reshape them and sent them out to gain experience leading the people.
• Hyuga Kazuya later arranged for Mata to assist the newly transformed group and spent several months secretly using Memory Transfer on most of Konoha’s ninja.
• Minato Namikaze’s shadow war against the Land of Fire’s Daimyo and nobles escalated, while Konoha’s forces and allies undermined their position.
• After nobles surrendered and outside aid failed to arrive, Konoha’s subordinates took over Kyoto City, leaving Minato Namikaze to accept Konoha’s de facto control of the Land of Fire.

Hyuga Kazuya defended using Memory Transfer Ninjutsu to Minato Namikaze, then expanded its use and developed Personal Panel Technology. Konoha’s strength grew rapidly, leaving the other great nations alarmed and uncertain how to respond.

• Minato Namikaze questioned Hyuga Kazuya about whether Memory Transfer had changed thousands of people, and Kazuya argued that the tradeoff benefited the wider Shinobi World.
• Minato Namikaze left after deciding to trust Kazuya’s explanation, while Kazuya continued promoting Memory Transfer and Personal Panel Technology.
• Over the following months, Hyuga Kazuya produced more than ten thousand Cloned Byakugan, strengthened his Tenseigan, and helped Momona become the second strongest person on Earth.
• Hyuga Kazuya simplified Personal Panel production and established a Memory Data Center with Minato Namikaze and Konoha’s leaders, offering ninja stored memories in exchange for merit.
• Konoha’s Memory Transfer program rapidly increased its Jonin ranks to nearly two thousand and supported plans to expand its ninja population through academies.
• The other great nations recognized that Konoha’s new technologies explained its rapid growth, but they remained alarmed and struggled to decide how to respond.

The Four Great Shinobi Villages and their Daimyo assessed reports that Konoha had rapidly expanded its forces using Memory Transfer Ninjutsu. They agreed to fund their villages more heavily and cooperate against Konoha, though Danzo secretly remained loyal to Konoha.

• The Raikage dismissed the report of Konoha’s strength, while Danzo silently recognized that it was largely true.
• Rasa urged the villages to fight Konoha, and Ōnoki asked the Daimyo for support to match Konoha’s growing forces.
• The Daimyo agreed to double their investment in the great shinobi villages.
• Ōnoki proposed that the Four Great Shinobi Villages replicate Memory Transfer Ninjutsu through joint research.
• The villages agreed to exchange resources, ninjutsu, and secret techniques and to establish a shared research center targeting Memory Transfer Ninjutsu.

Hyuga Kazuya dismissed the Old Era Alliance’s attempts to copy Konoha’s Memory Transfer Ninjutsu and focused on mass-producing Personal Panels and developing Personal Intelligent Terminals. Months later, the Old Era Alliance had strengthened its cooperation but remained far from making Memory Transfer safe and practical at scale, while Konoha’s next move remained pending.

• Hyuga Kazuya read Danzo’s intelligence about the Old Era Alliance and sent the report to Minato Namikaze.
• Hyuga Kazuya visited Orochimaru’s factory, where machines were being used to mass-produce Personal Panels for Konoha’s shinobi.
• Hyuga Kazuya worked on adding functions to the Personal Panels and Personal Intelligent Terminals, anticipating Konoha’s shinobi would soon grow stronger.
• Over the following months, the daimyo and the Four Great Shinobi Villages formed the Old Era Alliance and exchanged ninjutsu and secret techniques.
• The Old Era Alliance developed a formation to restrict spatial jumps, but its plans were reported to Minato Namikaze as soon as the formation was completed.
• The Old Era Alliance made initial progress imitating Memory Transfer but struggled with its risks, precision, memory crystals, and large-scale use.

The Ninja Reform Alliance’s new inventions and rapidly strengthened forces made its ninjas eager to unify the Shinobi World and declare war on the Old Era Alliance. Minato Namikaze counted the alliance-wide vote and prepared to announce its result, with ninety percent already in favor of war.

• The former Konoha and Land of Fire were renamed the Ninja Reform Alliance, with Minato Namikaze becoming its First Supreme Executive.
• Hyuga Kazuya’s Half-Life Seal, Memory Transfer Ninjutsu, and Personal Intelligent Terminal boosted the alliance’s ninjas, with more than sixty percent of its veteran force reaching Jonin rank.
• The alliance’s ninjas prepared to vote on declaring war on the Old Era Alliance and beginning the unification of the Shinobi World.
• Minato Namikaze counted the ballots at the alliance headquarters, where the declare-war option quickly secured ninety percent of the votes.
• Minato Namikaze composed himself and began announcing the vote’s result to the waiting crowd.

Minato Namikaze formally declared war on the Old Era Alliance, and Kakashi led a Puppet Force toward Kumogakure to begin the attack. As the force neared the village, Obito complained that his Mangekyō Sharingan had made him rational and ruined his carefree nature.

• Minato Namikaze announced that 93 percent had voted in favor of war and declared war on the Old Era Alliance led by Cloud, Stone Village, Sand Village, and Mist Village.
• The Ninja Reform Alliance began mobilizing for war, which Kakashi expected to end quickly.
• Kakashi's Puppet Force advanced through the mountains of the Land of Lightning toward Kumogakure, with a giant cannon-equipped puppet among its ranks.
• Might Guy eagerly prepared for battle, but Obito reminded him that the war machines would do the fighting while they assisted and recorded.
• Obito said his Mangekyō Sharingan had given him passive Absolute Rationality, and privately blamed Kakashi for his lost carefree youth.

Kakashi’s force launched a surprise attack on Kumogakure with the new Gundam puppets, devastating the village with a Spider Puppet Cannon. After learning that Killer B and the Eight-Tails survived, Kakashi ordered the Gundam Force to advance.

• Kakashi checked that the force’s concealment was holding as they approached Kumogakure, while Obito and Guy argued over puppet controls.
• Killer B celebrated the Raikage’s absence until the Eight-Tails sensed danger and shielded him and nearby ninjas.
• A Spider Puppet Cannon blast struck Kumogakure, collapsing the mountain beneath the Raikage Building and raising a vast mushroom cloud.
• A Hyuga Clan member reported that Killer B had survived and that the Sealing Squad was ready.
• Kakashi ordered the Gundam Force to charge into Kumogakure.

Hyuga Kazuya’s puppet force attacked Kumogakure, destroyed its chakra cannons, and overwhelmed the village’s defenses. Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails Gyuki, but specialized Sealing Squads bound him as the puppet squads took control of Kumogakure, leaving only the Raikage Building.

• Hundreds of humanoid puppets took flight and headed for Kumogakure after the attack began.
• Hyuga Clan pilots evaded Kumogakure’s chakra cannon fire and destroyed the cannons with their own energy beams.
• Killer B saw the ruins of the Kumogakure Building, ignored the supreme commander’s warning, and transformed into the Eight-Tails Gyuki.
• Ten Sealing Squads battled the Eight-Tails, then bound it with Super Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• The puppet squads subdued the village’s remaining threats and took control of Kumogakure, leaving only the Raikage Building.