Chapter Summaries

Danzo warned Konoha’s senior officials that a hidden faction might be behind recent attacks, while they focused on preparing for a possible war with Kumogakure. A decoded report revealed that the Cloud Ninja delegation had planned to abduct a Hyuga Main Family member for the Byakugan, and Hiashi reacted furiously.

• Danzo claimed that one hidden force had infiltrated Root, attacked Naruto, and killed the Cloud Ninja delegation, prompting Konoha’s leaders to debate the threat.
• Danzo urged Konoha to reinforce its borders and prepare hundreds of ninja, including Uchiha, as the officials discussed the risk of war with Kumogakure.
• Yako delivered the analysis team’s report, which revealed the Cloud Ninja delegation had intended to abduct a Hyuga Main Family member and steal the Byakugan.
• Shikaku Nara concluded that Bai Yue had likely killed the Cloud Ninja for a reason and resolved to warn him about leaving evidence behind.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Hyuga Hiashi, who read the report and declared that the Cloud Ninja’s plot was outrageous.

Hiashi learned that the Cloud Ninja had targeted Hinata and agreed to join Konoha’s coming war after the delegation was wiped out. The next morning, Bai Yue endured severe pain while checking on the political fallout, and the Nine-Tails wondered why humans loved war.

• Hiashi learned that the Cloud Ninja had targeted Hinata and furiously agreed to help Konoha fight the coming war.
• Danzo told Hiashi the Cloud Ninja delegation had been wiped out and invited him to hear the war plans.
• Bai Yue forced himself out of bed despite severe pain and wondered how the conflict would develop.
• Bai Yue reassured Aunt Hanako, who told him another war seemed about to begin.
• The Nine-Tails asked why humans loved war so much.

After enduring the Tenseigan’s second painful fetal movement, Bai Yue learned that the Hyuga Clan was preparing to send two hundred ninja, then left a Wood Clone in his lab and traveled toward the Land of Lightning. He reached the border of the Land of Hot Water, where his journey left off as he prepared to explore the recovering country.

• Bai Yue endured the Tenseigan’s second round of fetal movement while the Nine-Tails mocked him.
• After the pain subsided, Bai Yue learned that the Hyuga Clan planned to send two hundred ninja, including Elder Jinren, to the conflict with the Cloud Ninja.
• Bai Yue created a Wood Clone to stay in the Research Lab, then headed for the Land of Lightning.
• Bai Yue traveled to the border of the Land of Hot Water and considered exploring the country.

Bai Yue traveled through the Land of Hot Water and found Kumogakure after forcing directions from a Cloud Ninja patrol. After concealing Kurama and approaching the village, he activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, preparing to demonstrate his power.

• Bai Yue argued with Kurama while traveling through the Land of Hot Water and spotted a Cloud Ninja squad with his Byakugan.
• Bai Yue killed the squad's Chunin leader and intimidated the two Genin into revealing that Kumogakure lay to the southeast.
• Bai Yue verified that both Genin gave the same directions, spared them, and continued toward Kumogakure.
• Bai Yue asked Kurama whether the Eight-Tails could sense him and sealed off Kurama's awareness of the outside world.
• Bai Yue approached Kumogakure and activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode a few kilometers from the village.

Bai Yue attacked Kumogakure and overwhelmed Raikage A and Killer B in battle. After cutting off the Raikage’s right arm, he left the confrontation unresolved.

• Bai Yue decided against destroying Kumogakure outright and blasted its tallest building with Light Storm Cannon.
• Raikage A arrived and attacked Bai Yue, who grabbed him and repeatedly slammed him into the ground.
• Killer B joined the fight, but Bai Yue used the Raikage to fend off his tentacles and then struck him with a Truth-Seeking Orb staff.
• Raikage A and Killer B attacked together, but Bai Yue used Flying Thunder God to appear beside the Raikage and slash off his right arm.

Bai Yue defeated the Raikage and Killer B, absorbed some of Killer B and the Eight-Tails’ Chakra, and warned Kumogakure against starting a war. He left the Raikage to deal with his injuries and relaxed in a hot spring, where he discussed the Chakra Absorption Technique with the Nine-Tails.

• Killer B charged up a Tailed Beast Ball after seeing his brother lose an arm, but Bai Yue absorbed his Chakra and knocked him unconscious, then did the same to the Raikage.
• Bai Yue told the Raikage he had come to prevent a war and warned that he could destroy the Land of Lightning, then vanished after criticizing the Raikage’s insults.
• The Raikage guessed Bai Yue was connected to Konoha and ordered the Cloud Ninja to treat Killer B, but Medical Ninja reported that his severed arm could not be reattached with conventional Medical Ninjutsu.
• Bai Yue used the Transformation Jutsu to visit a hot spring in the Land of Hot Water, where the Nine-Tails asked about his Chakra absorption.
• Bai Yue explained that he had spared some of Killer B and the Eight-Tails’ Chakra and considered using his absorption ability to strengthen Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Bai Yue realized his Tenseigan might let him travel to the moon, where countless Byakugan could provide a shortcut to greater strength. After returning to his lab, he planned to use the coming years of peace to pursue that goal.

• Bai Yue teased Nine-Tails by teaching him to curse with the phrase “Tian Wenjing.”
• Bai Yue looked at the moon and realized his Tenseigan might open a Space-Time Wormhole to it, giving him access to the Byakugan there.
• Nine-Tails lamented that he would never avenge himself, so Bai Yue entered the Sealing Space and beat him.
• Bai Yue used Nine-Tails Mode and Flying Thunder God to return from the Land of Hot Water to his research lab in the Hyuga Clan Compound.
• Bai Yue dismissed his Wood Clone and reasoned that the Cloud Ninja would likely avoid war, leaving him nine or ten years to develop before seeking the Tenseigan on the moon.

Bai Yue discovered that the Tenseigan fetus’s movements had rapidly increased both his Tenseigan and Byakugan levels, and he waited for its next movement. In Konoha, urgent intelligence revealed that an unknown powerhouse had crippled Kumogakure’s leaders, but Danzo still pushed Hiruzen to attack.

• Bai Yue found that the Tenseigan’s movement had raised his Byakugan to lv9 and his Tenseigan to lv2, then settled in to wait for its third movement.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stripped Danzo of control over Root and ordered Kakashi Hatake to remove its members, thwarting Danzo’s plan to provoke Kumogakure.
• Danzo confronted Hiruzen at a Konoha leadership meeting and demanded that Konoha strike first rather than wait defensively.
• An Anbu delivered urgent intelligence, and Hiruzen ordered Konoha to stay vigilant at the Land of Hot Water border without striking first.
• Hiruzen shared a report that an unknown powerhouse had destroyed Kumogakure’s Raikage Office Building, severed Fourth Raikage A’s arm, and left Killer B unconscious.
• Danzo called the damage to Kumogakure’s strongest forces a chance to destroy the village, while Shikaku questioned his eagerness for war.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's council debated how to respond to the attack on Kumogakure, while Shikaku Nara suspected Bai Yue might be behind it. Shikaku visited the Hyuga Clan under the pretext of strengthening village defenses and found an opening to meet Bai Yue.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Danzo's call to seize the moment and attack Kumogakure, noting that the Fourth Raikage and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki were injured but alive and that the mysterious attacker remained a threat.
• Shikaku Nara wondered whether Bai Yue had attacked Kumogakure and suggested that the Hyuga Clan work with the Barrier Team to strengthen Konoha's defenses.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Shikaku to visit the Hyuga Clan and reassure Hiashi, giving Shikaku a chance to meet Bai Yue.
• Shikaku went to the Hyuga compound, where Hiashi invited him to a meal and little Hinata arrived.
• Hiashi told Hinata to find Bai Yue, and Shikaku asked Hiashi to introduce them, making Hiashi suspect that something was strange about Shikaku.

Bai Yue hosted Hiashi and Shikaku Nara for a meal, where Hiashi discovered through his Byakugan that Hinata ate far more at Bai Yue’s home than she ever did with him. Shaken by the realization that his daughter had been going hungry, Hiashi left in a daze, while Shikaku arranged to meet Bai Yue at eight that night.

• Hiashi accompanied Shikaku Nara and Hinata to Bai Yue’s home, where they joined Bai Yue and Neji for a meal.
• Bai Yue asked the Nine-Tails whether Shikaku bore him goodwill, and the Nine-Tails confirmed that he did.
• Bai Yue asked Hiashi to activate his Byakugan, and Hiashi watched Hinata eat an enormous amount of food.
• Hiashi realized Hinata had been eating too little at home and left without saying goodbye, deeply shaken.
• Shikaku confirmed an eight o’clock meeting with Bai Yue, while Bai Yue praised Hinata and sent Neji to practice after his meal.

Bai Yue visited Shikaku Nara, admitted to killing Kumogakure’s peace delegation and the ANBU guarding the Fourth Hokage’s son, and revealed that he had confronted the Raikage. Shikaku considered Bai Yue a powerful potential asset for Konoha, while Bai Yue declined any interest in becoming Hokage and went to inspect the Nara clan’s collection.

• Bai Yue appeared beside Shikaku Nara using an unexplained Flying Thunder God Mark, startling him.
• Bai Yue admitted to killing Kumogakure’s peace delegation and the ANBU assigned to guard the Fourth Hokage’s son.
• Bai Yue told Shikaku that he had visited Kumogakure and warned the Raikage against starting a war.
• Shikaku asked Bai Yue whether he wanted to become the Fifth Hokage, but Bai Yue rejected the idea.
• Shikaku let Bai Yue examine the Nara clan’s collection, where Bai Yue found a little bean with a ponytail and called himself its god-grandpa.

Bai Yue awakened the true Tenseigan, finished studying the Nara clan’s scrolls, and prepared to travel to the moon to impose the Caged Bird on the Otsutsuki clan. The chapter ended as he activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Kurama Mode, and Sage Mode together.

• Bai Yue endured the Tenseigan’s final ten-hour stirring while Shikamaru watched, then awakened the true Tenseigan and asked Shikamaru to keep it secret.
• Bai Yue sent Shikamaru home and ordered his Shadow Clones to finish studying the Nara clan’s scrolls.
• Bai Yue and his Shadow Clones spent seven days exhausting the Nara clan library, after which he decided to travel to the moon and target the Otsutsuki clan.
• Bai Yue created a Wood Clone, entered the Sealing Space at night, and asked Kurama to lend him Chakra for the journey.
• Bai Yue activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Kurama Mode, and Sage Mode together, forming a combined mode with an azure cloak and golden-red markings.

Bai Yue opened a space-time wormhole to the moon, where he found the Otsutsuki settlement in ruins and encountered Otsutsuki Hagoromo. Hagoromo questioned how Bai Yue possessed the Tenseigan, and Bai Yue refused to explain.

• Bai Yue opened a wormhole to the moon, sent a Shadow Clone ahead to scout, and followed it through.
• Bai Yue dismissed his power modes to conserve Chakra and told Kurama he had no interest in the Ten-Tails' shell sealed inside the moon.
• Kurama sensed pain and despair on the moon, so Bai Yue used the Tenseigan to search for the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Bai Yue found ruined walls and remains, then detected living people and flew toward them while dodging their Golden Light Orb puppets.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo recognized Bai Yue's Tenseigan and demanded to know how he had obtained it, but Bai Yue refused to answer.

Bai Yue learned that the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon had nearly destroyed itself centuries earlier and decided to take its remaining Tenseigan and records. He killed Otsutsuki Hagoromo, absorbed the Purple Tenseigan, and then entered the Sealing Space to fight the Nine-Tails.

• Bai Yue asked Otsutsuki Hagoromo whether the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon was extinct, and Hagoromo explained how a war between the Main Family and Branch Family had left only five survivors.
• Bai Yue decided to take the Golden Tenseigan and Purple Tenseigan, and he killed Otsutsuki Hagoromo when he tried to stop him.
• Bai Yue absorbed some of the energy from the Giant Tenseigan and planned to leave Shadow Clones behind to collect the Otsutsuki Clan's documents.
• Bai Yue used Caged Bird Modification: Pupil Power Absorption to devour the Purple Tenseigan while arguing with the Nine-Tails about his pursuit of strength.
• After the Purple Tenseigan was gone, Bai Yue entered the Sealing Space and began fighting the Nine-Tails.

Bai Yue left the sleeping Otsutsuki Toneri alive after taking a drop of his blood, then returned to Hamura Temple to obtain the Hamura Statue’s Summoning Scroll. Otsutsuki Noboru asked him to listen to an old man’s story, but Bai Yue said he already knew the account from four hundred years ago.

• Bai Yue took a drop of Otsutsuki Toneri’s blood and left him alive on the moon.
• Bai Yue told his Shadow Clones to study and guard the Golden Tenseigan before leaving the moon.
• Bai Yue returned to Hamura Temple and asked an Otsutsuki elder for the Hamura Statue’s Summoning Scroll.
• The elder handed Bai Yue the scroll, then asked his Shadow Clone to return the recliner it had taken.
• Otsutsuki Noboru invited Bai Yue to hear an old story, but Bai Yue replied that he had already heard the story from four hundred years ago.

Bai Yue left the moon after studying its Teleportation array and arrived in a mysterious region with a giant crab he wanted as a Summoned Beast. The Nine-Tails used his Chakra to make the crab submit to a summoning contract.

• Otsutsuki Noboru asked Bai Yue to look after Toneri so he would not grow to hate the Ninja World, and Bai Yue neither accepted nor refused.
• Bai Yue spent several days studying the Teleportation array until he activated it and traveled to a mysterious region.
• Bai Yue spotted a giant crab and told the Nine-Tails not to eat it because he wanted it as a Summoned Beast.
• Bai Yue punched the crab into a daze and demanded that it become his Summoned Beast, but the crab could not understand him.
• The Nine-Tails covered the crab in Tailed Beast Chakra and told Bai Yue to make it sign the summoning contract.

Bai Yue transferred Kurama’s consciousness into a female fox cub and treated him to a hotpot and drinks. After waking with a slight hangover, Bai Yue resolved to keep training and make Truth-Seeking Orbs before the story began.

• Bai Yue returned to the Ninja World, relaxed at home, and asked Aunt Hanako to buy him a cute fox.
• Bai Yue used his Will Transfer technique to move Kurama’s consciousness into the female fox cub.
• Bai Yue told Kurama about the transfer and invited him to share a hotpot and Golden Orange Milk Cap.
• Bai Yue and Kurama ate and drank together, with Kurama mistaking the drink for milk tea.
• Bai Yue woke with a headache and decided to train toward Six Paths-level strength and craft Truth-Seeking Orbs.

As Konoha’s leaders debated who should instruct the elite graduating class, they selected Hyuga Baiyue to lead the Eighth Squad. An Anbu operative summoned Baiyue to the Hokage Building, and he prepared to leave with Kurama sealed back inside him.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s leaders discussed candidates to instruct the Eighth Squad after Kurenai Yuhi declined the position.
• Mitokado Homura proposed Utatane Kogen, but Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected him as too weak.
• Danzo suggested letting the three clans choose an instructor, and Shikamaru Nara nominated Hyuga Baiyue.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved Baiyue, and an Anbu operative was sent to summon him to the Hokage Building.
• Baiyue agreed to go, told Kurama it was time to return, and sealed Kurama’s temporary physical vessel.

Bai Yue accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s offer to guide Team 8, while reflecting on the changes to his abilities and his stalled Sage Mode. After returning home, he clashed playfully with Anko over her plan to drink together, until Kurenai Yuhi arrived.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Bai Yue to guide this year’s Ninja Academy graduates, specifically Team 8, and Bai Yue accepted.
• Bai Yue reviewed his transformed Panel and noted that Sage Mode remained stuck at level 9 with 99% experience.
• After Bai Yue left, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shikaku, and Inoichi Yamanaka remarked on his striking appearance and its effect on others.
• Anko barged into Bai Yue’s home to invite him to drink, and the two bickered before agreeing to a battle over drinks and milk tea.
• Kurenai Yuhi arrived and told Anko that she had nearly beaten her to Bai Yue.

Bai Yue watched Naruto and Sasuke’s accidental kiss before meeting his new Team 8 and introducing himself as their instructor. After Hinata repeatedly fainted from embarrassment in his arms, Bai Yue wondered whether he had failed to prepare her for the team’s test.

• Bai Yue watched Naruto and Sasuke argue, then laughed when a classmate accidentally pushed Naruto into kissing Sasuke.
• Bai Yue collected Team 8, and Naruto proudly told the other students that he knew him.
• Naruto and Sasuke traded insults while Ino questioned Shikamaru about Bai Yue and learned he was from the Hyuga Main Family.
• Bai Yue introduced himself to Hinata, Kiba, and Shino as their clan brother and instructor.
• Hinata fainted from embarrassment after trying to introduce herself, woke in Bai Yue’s arms, and fainted again.
• Kiba scolded Hinata and worried that the team might fail its test and be sent back to the Ninja Academy.