Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Hiashi weighed Hinata’s weakness against Hanabi’s promise, while the clan planned to kill Neji in the Forest of Death. At a private restaurant, Hyuga Hizashi confronted Hiashi and left him wounded as Hiashi argued that everyone was trapped by the system.

• Hinata lost to Hanabi in training, and Hiashi ordered her to double her practice while Gensuke agreed that Hanabi was more suited to lead the clan.
• Hiashi and Gensuke discussed finding Hinata a talented Branch Family follower and learned that the Hokage planned to target Neji during the Chunin Exams.
• Hiashi visited the Ju Restaurant and brooded over rumors that the Main Family had forced Hizashi to die.
• Gensuke killed the guards outside Hiashi’s room, and Hizashi entered disguised as his dead twin brother before killing the courtesans and sealing Hiashi’s chakra.
• Hizashi cut off Hiashi’s hands, stabbed him, and accused him of sacrificing his brother and plotting Neji’s death.
• Hiashi admitted that the clan and Hokage’s hierarchy trapped everyone, then asked what Hizashi would do in his position.

Neji killed Hyuga Hiashi, then met Naruto with Yugito and offered the lonely, hungry boy ramen. While Naruto ate, Neji entered his inner world to confront the Nine-Tails; meanwhile, Fugaku learned that Uchiha Tekka had disappeared.

• Hizashi rejected Hyuga Hiashi’s willingness to sacrifice family, and Neji killed Hiashi, took his Byakugan, and left disguised as him.
• Naruto was driven from a toy store, had his coins scattered, and watched people trample the frog wallet he wanted to buy.
• Yugito and Neji returned Naruto’s last coin, then Neji invited him to eat ramen at Ichiraku.
• Naruto introduced himself to Neji and Yugito, and Neji gave him his bowl of ramen as Naruto cried while eating.
• Neji used his Tenseigan to enter Naruto’s inner world and approached the Nine-Tails’ cell.
• Uchiha Inabi told Fugaku that Uchiha Tekka had gone missing after a patrol, and Fugaku worried that Tekka’s Three Tomoe Sharingan made his disappearance suspicious.

Hyuga Neji made a deal with the Nine-Tails to borrow its chakra, then Hyuga Hiashi was murdered and Neji became a suspect. Konoha’s investigation found no proof against him, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisers scrutinized Neji’s contact with Naruto and Kumogakure.

• Hyuga Fugaku restrained Uchiha Inabi from acting rashly over Uchiha Tekka’s death and promised to speak with Konoha’s High Command.
• Hyuga Neji entered Naruto’s mental world, revealed his Tenseigan to the Nine-Tails, and sealed a deal to borrow its chakra.
• Hyuga Neji returned to the ramen shop and ordered another bowl for Naruto.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kakashi investigated Hyuga Hiashi’s murder, and Kakashi’s reading of Hiashi’s memories revealed that the killer had disguised himself as Hizashi Hyuga and that Hiashi had called out Neji’s name.
• Hyuga Gensuke demanded Neji’s arrest, but Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Kakashi to investigate Neji’s movements before taking action.
• Kakashi reported that Neji and Yugito had been in central Konoha when Hiashi was killed, while the frog-shaped wallet linked to Neji showed nothing unusual; Danzo warned Hiruzen to distrust the Cloud shinobi.

Hiruzen stopped Danzo from taking Naruto into Root and assigned Kakashi to protect him. Meanwhile, Neji trained at a Kumogakure intelligence station until he unlocked the Power of the Blade, then met the cloaked Hyuga traitor and began arranging an alliance.

• Hiruzen refused Danzo's demand to take Naruto, and Danzo accused him of making Root take the fall for the Chunin Exams.
• Hiruzen ordered Kakashi to guard Naruto from Root and return Naruto's frog wallet, while the elder advisors urged Hiruzen to exploit Hyuga Hiashi's death to gain influence over the Hyuga clan.
• Neji contacted Yurui at a hidden Kumogakure intelligence station and spent the day practicing swordsmanship and Taijutsu.
• Neji reached Level 5 swordsmanship and learned Power of the Blade, an ability that used Yin Release Chakra to increase his blade's presence and affect enemies.
• A cloaked figure arrived to meet Neji, revealed that he hated the Hyuga clan, and agreed to consider cooperation, but refused to show his face.

Neji persuaded a masked Puppet Doll to search the Hyuga clan’s history for the Giant Tenseigan by revealing his own evolved eyes. The second Chunin Exam began in the Forest of Death, where Neji entered with Darui and Karui after hearing the scroll-battle rules.

• Neji showed the Puppet Doll a record of Hyuga Tenin and revealed his Tenseigan, convincing the spy to help search for the Giant Tenseigan.
• Aoba Yamashiro explained that candidates had five days to obtain both scrolls and reach the central tower, while warning them that deaths were possible.
• Zabuza asked whether candidates could kill one another, and Aoba permitted it except for pointless killing or attacking anyone who had withdrawn.
• Aoba described the exam’s rules, including the requirement to keep teammates able to fight, and told candidates that the Forest of Death was monitored by hidden cameras.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Uchiha Fugaku, Hyuga Gensuke, and representatives from other villages watched the exam from the monitoring room as the teams entered the forest.
• Neji exchanged words with a purple-haired female ninja at the gate, then led Darui and Karui into the Forest of Death.

Neji and his teammates collected an Earth Scroll, while other teams clashed across the Forest of Death and Guren’s team searched for Uchiha Itachi. Neji separated from Darui and Karui to face three Root jonin sent by Danzo, just as the surveillance screens went dark for five minutes.

• Neji, Darui, and Karui ambushed a Takigakure team and took its Earth Scroll without a fight.
• Guren used the White Snake to locate Uchiha Itachi and led Gozu and Gari across the forest toward him.
• Mei Terumi’s Kirigakure team encountered Yura’s Sunagakure team, whose members challenged them to fight.
• Neji detected three masked Root shinobi pursuing him, gave Darui and Karui the scrolls, and drew the pursuers toward a valley alone.
• The three Root jonin charged Neji as the surveillance screens went black, and an Anbu shinobi blamed a short circuit that would take about five minutes to repair.

Neji defeated Danzo’s Root squad, extracted information from one survivor, and headed toward the central tower before changing course to investigate Uchiha Itachi’s encounter with Deidara. Itachi crushed Deidara with Sharingan genjutsu, but Guren arrived and challenged him to a fight.

• Neji used Black Lightning and flexible Lightning Release techniques to defeat the Root Ninja, then read a survivor’s memories and sent him back to Danzo as a spy.
• Hiruzen offered to let Itachi join the Anbu after the Chunin Exams, and Fugaku accepted the arrangement.
• Neji detected Deidara and Itachi approaching each other, then spotted another chakra signature pursuing Itachi and went to investigate.
• Deidara confronted Itachi over the written test, but Itachi trapped him in a Sharingan illusion and left him mentally shattered.
• Guren confronted Itachi beside the unconscious Deidara and declared that she wanted to kill him herself.

Hyuga Neji intervened when Guren attacked Uchiha Itachi, then persuaded her to withdraw by threatening to expose Orochimaru’s connection to Otogakure. After the Chunin exam’s second stage ended, Neji invited Itachi to meet him, while Itachi and Shisui worried about the Uchiha clan’s future; Danzo remained unaware that a Root ninja had gone to the Forest of Death.

• Mei Terumi used Boil Release to destroy Sunagakure’s puppets, while Zabuza fought the fleeing shinobi and the monitoring-room officials discussed Kirigakure’s dangerous training methods.
• Guren battled Uchiha Itachi with Crystal Release until Itachi trapped her in wires, but Neji freed her from the fight and warned her that Konoha could hunt down Orochimaru.
• Guren withdrew with Gari and Gozu, and Neji asked Itachi to meet him alone in the Forest of Death after the second exam so he could discuss the Uchiha clan’s future.
• Neji reunited with Darui and Karui at the central tower, and the exam’s remaining matches selected ten finalists as Guren, Gari, and Gozu forfeited their bouts.
• Uchiha Itachi returned to the Uchiha compound and discussed the clan’s pride and uncertain future with Uchiha Shisui, then decided to attend Neji’s meeting.
• Danzo learned that his attempt to kill Neji had failed and ordered Root’s training doubled, while his dismissed Root ninja secretly headed back to the Forest of Death.

Neji and Yugito killed Uchiha Itachi in the Forest of Death and staged the scene to inflame tensions between the Uchiha and Konoha. Shisui uncovered evidence implicating Danzō, seized the Sharingan hidden beneath his bandages, and demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi answer for Itachi’s murder.

• Neji revealed that Itachi’s death would drive the Uchiha toward a coup, while Yugito arrived with a masked Root corpse to frame Root and deepen the conflict.
• The Patrol Team found Itachi and the masked ninja dead, prompting Fugaku to lead the Konoha Military Police Force to confront Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Shisui examined the crime scene, discovered a blood-marked stone, and concluded that Danzō’s right eye might contain a Sharingan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Danzō about the murder, while Danzō denied ordering it and claimed someone was framing Root.
• Shisui declared that Root had nothing to do with the killing, then used genjutsu to seize the Three-Tomoe Sharingan hidden beneath Danzō’s bandages.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Shisui presented the marked stone as evidence before demanding that Hiruzen Sarutobi decide how to punish Danzō.

Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to punish Shimura Danzo severely for killing Uchiha Itachi, driving the Uchiha clan toward a coup and leaving Shisui doubtful they could survive it. As Obito watched the feud deepen, Neji learned the Chunin Ninja Exams had been canceled and realized he had lost a chance to make billions.

• Uchiha Fugaku exposed Danzo's Wood Release arm, but Hiruzen Sarutobi stripped Danzo of his positions and disbanded Root instead of imposing a harsher punishment.
• Fugaku and Shisui rejected Hiruzen's decision and left, while Hiruzen and his advisors prepared to suppress the Uchiha clan.
• Fugaku called for a coup, and Shisui doubted it could succeed even if he used Kotoamatsukami to control Hiruzen.
• Obito learned that the Uchiha and Hokage faction had fallen out, and he and the Zetsu decided to watch from the shadows.
• An Anbu told Neji the Chunin Ninja Exams were over and ordered him to find a chance to leave Konoha, and Neji lamented the money he had lost.

Neji and Yugito persuaded Uchiha Fugaku to abandon a coup and lead his clan out of Konoha to join Kumogakure. Fugaku’s clan meeting weighed the risks, and Yugito promised military support as the Uchiha prepared to leave.

• Yugito teased Neji before he counted the eighty million ryo they had earned from betting on the Chunin Exams.
• Neji told Yugito that the Uchiha were preparing to fight the Hokage faction, and they went to Fugaku’s home to offer the clan a way out.
• Neji and Yugito convinced Fugaku that Kumogakure would welcome the Uchiha, and Fugaku decided to leave Konoha rather than stage a coup.
• Fugaku called a meeting of thirty-two Uchiha elites and argued that a coup would unite Konoha’s clans against them, while leaving could preserve more of the clan.
• Yugito promised that the Fourth Raikage would send elite troops to escort the Uchiha and that she and Neji would help them from within Konoha.

Uchiha Fugaku secured unanimous approval from the Uchiha elites to abandon Konoha and join Kumogakure, then organized a phased retreat and prepared to stay behind to cover it. While the clan began evacuating, Neji and Yugito planned to exploit the ensuing chaos to steal the Scroll of Seals and kidnap Naruto.

• Uchiha Fugaku called a vote, and all thirty-two Uchiha elites supported leaving Konoha for Kumogakure.
• Fugaku arranged for the elderly, women, and children to leave first, followed by the able-bodied adults, while he stayed behind to cover the retreat; Shisui reluctantly accepted the plan after Yugito promised to help Fugaku.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Shimura Danzō's demand for an immediate attack on the Uchiha and refused to hand Naruto over to him, while Danzō quietly considered Kakashi's guardianship an opportunity.
• The Uchiha began secret preparations to evacuate, and Fugaku told Mikoto that he intended to remain behind and entrusted Sasuke to her.
• Neji and Yugito planned to use the chaos surrounding the Uchiha's retreat to steal the Scroll of Seals and take Naruto, then reunite with the Uchiha; Neji told Yugito to bring Darui and Karui into the plan.

The Uchiha began secretly evacuating Konoha in groups while Hiruzen and Danzo argued over how to respond. After the first group escaped and the second set out, the Uchiha were discovered, drawing Hiruzen toward their compound and giving Neji and Obito a chance to infiltrate the Hokage Building.

• Hiruzen questioned Danzo's reports about the Uchiha and warned him not to provoke the clan, then sent two Anbu teams to monitor Root.
• Darui and Karui helped Gen'yūseki Uchiha and Kaseki Uchiha lead nearly a thousand elderly people, women, and children out of Konoha through a gap in its sensory barrier.
• Fugaku sent Shisui and Yashiro with the second group, while he and more than a hundred Uchiha shinobi stayed behind to confront the Hokage faction.
• Root and Anbu discovered the Uchiha's retreat and sent messengers to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo.
• Neji and Yugito spotted the messengers and split up; Neji entered the Hokage Building after Hiruzen left for the Uchiha compound.
• Obito also entered the Hokage Building using his right eye's space-time ability.

Hiruzen Sarutobi mobilized Konoha's forces against the Uchiha, unaware that they planned to leave the village rather than stage a coup. Meanwhile, Neji infiltrated the Hokage Building to reach its archives, where he unexpectedly encountered Obito, and they joined forces to eliminate the guards.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Anbu squads and allied clans to prepare to fight the Uchiha, while Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu joined his force.
• The Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, Inuzuka, Aburame, and other clans sent elite shinobi to the Uchiha Clan Compound, believing a coup was underway.
• Shimura Danzō arrived at the compound and questioned Uchiha Fugaku, who told him to wait for Hiruzen Sarutobi so they could settle their longstanding grievances.
• Neji slipped into the Hokage Building, defeated two guards, and navigated the sealed underground corridors toward the chamber he believed held the Scroll of Seals.
• Obito emerged from a space-time vortex near the guarded chamber, and Neji and Obito killed or removed the eight Anbu before facing each other.

Fugaku told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Uchiha wanted to leave Konoha rather than stage a coup, forcing the clan leaders to reconsider whether to fight them. Meanwhile, Neji and Obito fought to a stalemate, then entered the archive room and took different spoils; the Uchiha standoff remained unresolved as the leaders learned Shisui was absent.

• Fugaku told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Uchiha would leave Konoha, while Hiruzen and the clan leaders weighed whether to let them go or fight.
• Neji used repulsion and a chakra bead to wound Obito, and the two agreed to stop fighting.
• Neji and Obito entered the archive room, where Neji claimed the Scroll of Seals and Obito took Hashirama Cells and other scrolls.
• Kurama Murakumo revealed that Uchiha Shisui was absent, making the clan leaders wary of helping Hiruzen Sarutobi attack Fugaku.

Danzo launched an attack on the Uchiha as they prepared to leave Konoha, turning the standoff into a battle. As Fugaku’s Susanoo devastated the Root forces, Kakashi confronted Yugito while she protected Naruto, and Neji changed course to investigate the commotion around her.

• Fugaku argued that the Uchiha had the right to leave Konoha, but Danzo declared them traitors and ordered Root to attack them.
• Yugito tried to take Naruto from Kakashi’s home, where Root shinobi arrived to seize the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki; Kakashi returned, killed the intruders with Yugito, and recognized her as a Jinchuriki.
• Neji and Obito heard explosions from the Uchiha compound; Obito vanished, while Neji noticed Yugito’s partial Tailed Beast transformation and headed for the Hatake Clan Compound.
• Fugaku unleashed Susanoo against the charging Root shinobi, killing five and grievously wounding another, prompting Hiruzen to order the Hokage faction’s forces to fight the Uchiha.
• Hiruzen blamed Fugaku for the Nine-Tails’ Rampage to draw the hesitant clans into battle, but Shikaku and Inoichi stopped Jōza from charging and decided the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans would wait before intervening.

Uchiha Fugaku’s clash with Konoha’s clans was interrupted when Hiruzen Sarutobi rushed to stop Kumogakure’s Yugito from kidnapping Naruto. Neji fought his way to the Hatake clan grounds to help Yugito and seize Naruto, but Kakashi and Might Guy blocked his approach as reinforcements closed in.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Yugito was attacking the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki, gathered several hundred clan ninja, and left Danzo, Homura, and Koharu to deal with the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Fugaku realized Hiruzen’s sudden departure was likely connected to the Nine-Tails, while Neji spotted Yugito fighting a large Konoha force in her cat-demon form.
• Kurenai Yuhi and Mitaraishi Anko tried to stop Neji, but his Tenseigan dispelled Kurenai’s genjutsu and he defeated both women before continuing toward the Hatake clan grounds.
• Neji attacked the guards around the sleeping Naruto with Storm Release and charged toward him, but Kakashi trapped him with Earth Style and attacked with a Great Fireball.
• Neji broke through Kakashi’s earthen wall with black lightning, dodged Might Guy’s kick, and prepared to face both men while Yugito gained ground and Hiruzen approached.

Neji escaped Konoha with Naruto after fighting Kakashi and Guy, but the Nine-Tails refused to help as pursuers closed in. Meanwhile, Fugaku unleashed his Mangekyo abilities against Danzo, who survived with Izanagi before Obito appeared.

• Obito and Zetsu watched the fighting in Konoha and decided to investigate Fugaku's Mangekyo rather than expose themselves to the Cloud Ninja.
• Neji wounded Kakashi, drove Guy back with the Tenseigan's repulsion, and seized Naruto before fleeing toward the outskirts of Konoha.
• Yugito and Konoha's ninja pursued Neji, who spotted the Third Hokage approaching and asked the Nine-Tails for help, but it ignored him.
• Fugaku used Take-Mikazuchi to annihilate the ninja surrounding him, then attacked Danzo with Susanoo and Amaterasu.
• Danzo survived Fugaku's Amaterasu with Izanagi and trapped him inside a Four Violet Flames Formation as Obito appeared beside them.

Neji fought Hiruzen Sarutobi after abducting Naruto, while Fugaku battled Obito and Danzo at the Uchiha Clan Compound. Neji became trapped in Hiruzen’s Earth Prison Dome, and Danzo leapt to attack Fugaku’s Susanoo.

• Hiruzen summoned Enma, used the Adamantine Nyoi-bo to catch up with Neji, and attacked him with Fire Style.
• Neji used gravitational control and the God Vacuum Attack to strike what he believed was Hiruzen, but the target proved to be a Shadow Clone.
• Hiruzen trapped Neji inside an Earth Prison Dome and reinforced it as Neji’s Black Lightning leopard failed to break through.
• Fugaku attacked Obito and Danzo with Susanoo, destroyed Danzo’s Dream summon, and cut it in half after Amaterasu struck it.
• Danzo, still coveting Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan, leapt toward Susanoo with a Kunai.

Neji fought Hiruzen Sarutobi alongside Yugito, then entered Naruto’s mental space to learn why the Nine-Tails could not help him. He persuaded Namikaze Minato to remove the extra seals, and the chapter ended with the Nine-Tails’ chakra enveloping Neji and forming four tails.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi trapped Neji with earth techniques and overwhelmed him with the Adamantine Nyoi-bo, while Yugito broke the Earth Prison Dome and was knocked away.
• Konoha reinforcements surrounded Neji and Yugito, so Neji asked Yugito to hold off Hiruzen while he entered Naruto’s mental space.
• The Nine-Tails explained that Namikaze Minato had strengthened Naruto’s seal, and Neji confronted Minato about his choice to protect Konoha at Naruto’s expense.
• Neji threatened to destroy the Eight Trigrams Seal and release the Nine-Tails, convincing Minato to remove the two additional sealing formulas.
• Hiruzen suppressed Yugito’s Tailed Beast transformation, but Naruto’s orange-red chakra surged out and shifted onto Neji, giving him four tails.