Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya met Fifth Hokage Tsunade under the guise of wealthy merchants and revealed their identities. Tsunade demanded proof, and Kushina began demonstrating her connection to the Nine-Tails while Kazuya contained its chakra inside the office.

• Minato Namikaze and Kushina decided to meet Tsunade before secretly visiting Naruto, and Kazuya agreed to help them seek her assistance.
• The three disguised themselves as a wealthy merchant and his two guards, then used an extravagant mission reward to gain an audience with Tsunade.
• Kazuya persuaded Tsunade to send Shizune out of the office so their private matter would stay secret.
• Minato Namikaze and Kushina revealed their faces, but Tsunade threatened to detain them unless they proved their identities.
• Kushina drew out the Nine-Tails' evil chakra, and Kazuya sealed the aura inside the office.

Minato Namikaze explained to Tsunade that he, Kushina, and their companion had come from the past in another world, and asked for her help repairing the Dragon Vein seal in Rōran so they could return. Tsunade agreed to provide supplies and questioned how their time travel worked, leaving their method of arriving in this world unresolved.

• Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to convince Tsunade to tentatively believe his account of traveling from another world’s past.
• Minato Namikaze and Kushina asked Tsunade for Naruto’s whereabouts, and she said he was training with Jiraiya near the Land of Hot Springs a month earlier.
• Minato Namikaze asked Tsunade for Barrier Stones and building materials to repair the damaged Dragon Vein seal in Rōran.
• Tsunade agreed to provide the supplies, viewing the three travelers as a potentially valuable outside ally.
• Minato Namikaze explained that he could return through Flying Thunder God coordinates when the Dragon Vein erupted, and Tsunade asked how they had arrived and how others could reach his world.

Tsunade proposed an Alliance with Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya so she could call on their world for help as the future unfolded. They agreed to meet again in three months, while Tsunade prepared supplies and hoped the Alliance would never be needed.

• Minato Namikaze explained that Flying Thunder God formulas and the Dragon Vein had brought them to this world, and proposed using a new Flying Thunder God kunai to travel between worlds.
• Hyuga Kazuya revealed his identity, and Tsunade recognized him as the man whose legacy had caused trouble for the Hyuga Clan.
• Tsunade asked Minato Namikaze to form an Alliance, offering her world’s information in exchange for outside support when needed.
• Minato Namikaze agreed, and Tsunade planned to have someone learn the Flying Thunder God Technique so they could reconnect in three months.
• Hyuga Kazuya said they could find Naruto within a day, and Tsunade told Shizune to prepare the supplies before watching the three visitors leave.

Hyuga Kazuya found Naruto and Jiraiya in the Land of Hot Springs and returned to bring Minato Namikaze and Kushina to see Naruto. They traveled there together, and Kazuya began arranging a chance for the two parents to meet their son without revealing who they were.

• Hyuga Kazuya flew to the Land of Hot Springs and searched for Naruto and Jiraiya with his Byakugan.
• After finding them in a small town, Kazuya returned to Konoha without telling Jiraiya about time travel.
• Minato Namikaze and Kushina set out with Kazuya to see Naruto, deciding not to draw Jiraiya away.
• Kazuya promised to create an opportunity for Minato and Kushina to see Naruto without revealing their identities.
• Naruto entered a supermarket with Jiraiya and learned he was its 66,666th customer, earning free purchases for the day.
• Jiraiya tried to follow Naruto to claim free items, but a supermarket employee told him the offer applied only to Naruto.

Naruto spent an evening shopping with Kushina and Minato before they returned to Konoha with Hyuga Kazuya to collect supplies for repairing the Dragon Vein seal. Kazuya then left with Minato and Kushina for Rōran, while a Shadow Clone informed Neji that he would be gone for several months.

• Kushina and Minato took Naruto shopping, bought him clothes and gifts, and hugged him goodbye as he left.
• Hyuga Kazuya joined the tearful Kushina and Minato, and the three flew back to Konoha while Jiraiya watched them depart.
• At the Hokage Building, Tsunade gave the group supplies for repairing the Dragon Vein seal and reminded Minato to return in three months to establish contact between their worlds.
• Minato told Hyuga Kazuya he would teach him the Flying Thunder God Technique after their return, and Kazuya thanked him.
• Kazuya sent a Shadow Clone to the Hyuga Clan grounds to tell Neji he would be away for several months, then left with Minato and Kushina for Rōran.

Tsunade gave Kakashi an S-rank mission to master the Flying Thunder God Technique within three months. Meanwhile, Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina repaired the Dragon Vein chamber and developed a new sealing array, leaving its energy-storage problem unresolved.

• Tsunade handed Kakashi Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique scroll and tasked him with learning the technique within three months.
• Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina returned to Rōran and repaired and reinforced the underground Dragon Vein chamber.
• The three discussed improvements to the Dragon Vein seal, including automatic shutdown, more secure activation, repeated use, and concealing its energy discharge.
• Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina created the Dragon Vein Great Sealing Array on the third day, based on several existing Sealing Jutsu.
• Because Hyuga Kazuya had not built an energy-storage device, the three planned to redirect the Dragon Vein's eruption underground instead of letting its purple energy pillar rise into the sky.

Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina completed and tested the improved Dragon Vein Great Sealing Array in Rōran. The array suppressed the eruption enough to avoid a visible energy pillar, and Minato’s Shadow Clone sensed the original timeline’s Flying Thunder God formula, so they prepared to return the next morning.

• Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina finished the new Dragon Vein seal and rested before testing it.
• Minato Namikaze left a Shadow Clone in the underground chamber while Hyuga Kazuya and Kushina watched from outside.
• The Dragon Vein erupted, but the array suppressed its energy and shut down automatically a few seconds later.
• Minato Namikaze confirmed that his Shadow Clone sensed the original timeline’s Flying Thunder God formula.
• Hyuga Kazuya reported that the Barrier Stones would need replacing after about three uses for safety.
• Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya began concealing their traces in Rōran and planned to return to the original timeline the next morning.

Hyuga Kazuya, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina used the Dragon Vein to return to the original timeline in Rōran. They found the city overrun with more war puppets and discovered that several puppet-bodied Anrokuzans made it impossible to identify the real one.

• Minato Namikaze unsealed the Dragon Vein, and he, Hyuga Kazuya, and Kushina used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the original timeline.
• Minato Namikaze confirmed they had arrived in Rōran, and Kushina celebrated their return.
• Hyuga Kazuya used his Byakugan to find that Rōran had more war puppets and that about half of its underground factory's citizens had died or disappeared over the past ten days.
• Hyuga Kazuya found several puppet-bodied Anrokuzans but could not tell which was the real one because their chakra threads were indistinguishable.
• Minato Namikaze wondered where Anrokuzan came from and how he had gained control of the Dragon Vein and advanced puppet-making technology.

Hyuga Kazuya concluded that Anrokuzan came from another Parallel World, and the three of them planned to disable his puppets by secretly taking control of the Dragon Vein. Kazuya infiltrated the Dragon Vein’s underground chamber and brought Minato Namikaze and Kushina there to investigate Anrokuzan’s control method.

• Hyuga Kazuya reasoned that Anrokuzan had come from another Parallel World because he could not have originated in either known timeline.
• Kushina suggested secretly taking control of the Dragon Vein to cut off the energy powering Anrokuzan’s puppets, and Kazuya proposed entering the chamber underground.
• Hyuga Kazuya used Earth Release to reach the underground chamber and opened a passage without damaging the Dragon Vein’s seal.
• Hyuga Kazuya inspected the chamber, found no guards, and used a Flying Thunder God Kunai to bring Minato Namikaze and Kushina inside.
• The three began examining the Dragon Vein, while Kazuya recognized that Anrokuzan had gained control by exploiting the previous Queen of Roran’s trust.

Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya failed to find Anrokuzan’s method of controlling the Dragon Vein, so they sealed the vein to cut off the energy feeding his puppets. After easily defeating five puppets, they searched for Anrokuzan, but Hyuga Kazuya’s Byakugan detected five similar targets and Minato Namikaze left the search to him.

• Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya searched the underground space for Anrokuzan’s control method but found nothing, so they decided to shut down the Dragon Vein.
• The three replaced the existing formation with their Dragon Vein Great Sealing Array, and Kushina activated it to stop the Dragon Vein from sending chakra outside.
• Anrokuzan sensed the Dragon Vein’s shutdown and sent five puppets to investigate, while Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hyuga Kazuya prepared to meet them.
• Minato Namikaze’s five clones struck the arriving puppets with Rasengan, destroying them before they could recover without the Dragon Vein’s energy.
• Hyuga Kazuya used his Byakugan to search for Anrokuzan but found five similar targets, so Minato Namikaze told him that locating the real one was now up to him.

Hyuga Kazuya tracked down Anrokuzan’s puppets in Rōran, using his Byakugan and Vacuum Arrow to disable them and search for his real body. After finding multiple apparent cores, he decided to capture every target and focus on obtaining Anrokuzan’s puppets and technology.

• Kushina sensed five Anrokuzan targets in Rōran and detected one fleeing, so Minato Namikaze took her to pursue it while Hyuga Kazuya handled the others.
• Hyuga Kazuya shot a puppet through several walls, then sent a Shadow Clone to dismantle it and retrieve an oval jar that seemed to contain Anrokuzan’s real body.
• Hyuga Kazuya saw that the other puppets remained active and found a second similar jar in another puppet, leading him to suspect Anrokuzan had divided his core among several bodies.
• Hyuga Kazuya concluded that his Byakugan had defeated Anrokuzan’s plan to scatter his bodies across Rōran and continued capturing the remaining puppets.

Hyuga Kazuya defeated Anrokuzan’s remaining puppets and joined Minato Namikaze and Kushina, who had captured another core. The group agreed that Kazuya would control Anrokuzan and use him to calm Rōran’s people and protect the Dragon Vein.

• Kazuya defeated the two remaining Anrokuzan puppets and collected their cores.
• Kazuya met Minato and Kushina, took the jar containing bloody flesh buds, and identified them as Anrokuzan’s core.
• Minato asked Kazuya’s opinion on Anrokuzan’s fate, and Kazuya proposed controlling him and making him atone to Rōran’s people.
• Kazuya offered to calm the people of Rōran by making Anrokuzan appear and ending their factory labor, while keeping the Dragon Vein safe.
• Minato and Kushina accepted the plan, and Kazuya connected with the Great Tenseigan to control Anrokuzan.

Hyuga Kazuya used the Great Tenseigan’s Spirit Ball to control Anrokuzan’s cores and learned he could revive him using puppet wreckage. Anrokuzan’s core entered the assembled puppet and began rebuilding it, leaving the revival underway.

• Hyuga Kazuya brought five of Anrokuzan’s cores together, and they joined and revealed signs of life force and spiritual power.
• Hyuga Kazuya used the Great Tenseigan’s Spirit Ball to control Anrokuzan and make him loyal.
• Hyuga Kazuya gathered puppet wreckage from the sites where he had shot Anrokuzan, explaining that he needed to revive him and restore the Dragon Vein.
• Hyuga Kazuya assembled the puppet wreckage and placed Anrokuzan’s core on its chest.
• Anrokuzan’s core entered the puppet, and a blue glow began repairing and reshaping its parts.

Hyuga Kazuya restored Rōran’s puppets by taking control of Anrokuzan, then secretly stayed behind after Minato Namikaze and Kushina left. He questioned Anrokuzan about how he had controlled the Dragon Vein.

• Hyuga Kazuya revived Anrokuzan, who recovered his body and obeyed Kazuya as his master.
• Hyuga Kazuya partially undid the Dragon Vein’s seal, restoring energy to Anrokuzan, Rōran’s chakra conduits, and its puppets and factories.
• Hyuga Kazuya ordered Anrokuzan to calm Rōran’s people, and Minato Namikaze agreed the group could return to the village.
• Hyuga Kazuya sent a Shadow Clone with Minato Namikaze and Kushina while his real body secretly remained in Rōran.
• Hyuga Kazuya asked how Anrokuzan had controlled the Dragon Vein, and Anrokuzan said he had developed his method using the Former Queen of Roran’s bloodline and the seal.

Hyuga Kazuya learned that Anrokuzan’s Dragon Vein technique only suppressed the Dragon Vein’s instincts while drawing its energy. He tested whether the Great Tenseigan could absorb that energy and found that it could after he assimilated it by burning his life force.

• Hyuga Kazuya read Anrokuzan’s memories and discovered that his technique did not truly control the Dragon Vein.
• Hyuga Kazuya sent Anrokuzan away and used the technique to draw a small amount of Dragon Vein energy.
• The Great Tenseigan rejected the energy when Hyuga Kazuya tried to transfer it directly.
• Hyuga Kazuya burned his life force to assimilate the energy, then sent it to the Great Tenseigan, which absorbed it.

Hyuga Kazuya refined Dragon Vein energy into more than 900 cards’ worth of chakra for the Great Tenseigan, then discovered the process had increased his own chakra limit. He decided to return to the village and considered having three of his students help with the energy refining later.

• Hyuga Kazuya calculated that he could supply the Great Tenseigan with more than 900 cards of chakra a day and imagined using a living tissue transfer station to expand its energy supply.
• Hyuga Kazuya reflected that Enlightenment let his strength grow over time, then focused on refining Dragon Vein energy.
• The next day, Hyuga Kazuya had supplied more than 900 cards of chakra to the Great Tenseigan, whose reserves rose by several percentage points.
• Hyuga Kazuya found that his chakra limit had increased from thirteen cards to fifteen and considered recruiting three of his students to refine energy.
• Hyuga Kazuya left the underground seal space to return to the village, and Anrokuzan greeted him at the door.

Hyuga Kazuya left Anrokuzan in charge of securing Rōran and developing its puppets, then flew back toward Konoha at roughly ten times the speed of sound. The chapter ended with him spotting the village from high above.

• Hyuga Kazuya ordered Anrokuzan to expand and defend the Dragon Vein seal area, pacify Rōran's citizens, and research puppets for roles beyond combat.
• Hyuga Kazuya secretly left Rōran and used the Mysterious Peacock Method to take flight.
• Hyuga Kazuya used the Great Tenseigan to replenish his chakra as he accelerated to supersonic speeds.
• Hyuga Kazuya estimated his speed at about ten times the speed of sound and calculated that he could sustain it for around 200 seconds with 15 Ka of chakra.
• Hyuga Kazuya continued flying toward Konoha and spotted the village from high above.

Hyuga Kazuya returned to Konoha after a month away and absorbed his Shadow Clone’s memories, learning that he had become a resident researcher through Orochimaru’s recommendation. As Kazuya rested at home, a Root agent reported to Shimura Danzō about Orochimaru’s recent activities.

• Hyuga Kazuya sneaked back into Konoha and returned to his home after a long journey from Rōran.
• Hyuga Kazuya’s Shadow Clone dispelled itself, and Kazuya absorbed a month of memories showing that the village had remained quiet and he had researched Byakugan cloning with Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kazuya learned that his clone had become a researcher Jonin with Orochimaru’s support and considered experimenting on Byakugan evolution.
• Hyuga Kazuya decided to rest, noting that the Third Shinobi World War might force him back into combat within a year or two.
• A Ghost Face Pattern Man reported to Shimura Danzō in Root’s underground base that he had discovered what Orochimaru had been doing.

Danzo learned that Orochimaru was trying to clone the Byakugan and ordered Root to secure the technology while recruiting Hyuga Kazuya. The Ghost Face Mask Ninja then reported to Orochimaru that he had told Danzo everything and revealed Kazuya’s involvement.

• The Ghost Face Mask Ninja told Danzo that Orochimaru had obtained Hyuga Main Family genes and was attempting to clone the Byakugan.
• Danzo decided Root had to control the cloning technology and ordered the Ghost Face Mask Ninja to monitor Orochimaru’s research.
• The Ghost Face Mask Ninja identified Hyuga Kazuya as a frequent visitor to the research base, and Danzo decided to approach him with an offer to help break the Caged Bird’s restraints.
• Danzo instructed the Ghost Face Mask Ninja to recruit Kazuya gently rather than force him into Root.
• The Ghost Face Mask Ninja met Orochimaru and reported that he had told Danzo everything, including Kazuya’s involvement.

Hyuga Kazuya sparred with his uncle and showed off his exceptional physical strength, then weighed his training priorities. He decided to use the Shadow Clone Jutsu to pursue the Flying Thunder God Technique and the Cloned Byakugan.

• Hyuga Kazuya practiced the Gentle Fist in his courtyard, and his uncle joined him for a spar.
• Hyuga Kazuya endured his uncle's Gentle Fist attacks with his powerful physique and secretly strengthened his defense with Lightning Style Chakra Mode.
• Hyuga Kazuya rejected his uncle's offer to train him in close combat, saying he would rely on overwhelming force instead.
• Hyuga Kazuya considered learning the Flying Thunder God Technique, investigating the Cloned Byakugan, and practicing bow-and-arrow ninjutsu, but prioritized the first two.
• Hyuga Kazuya chose to use the Shadow Clone Jutsu to handle his competing goals.