Chapter Summaries

Neji used the Nine-Tails’ chakra to unleash the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, devastating Konoha before escaping with Naruto and Yugito. Hiruzen learned the masked attacker was Neji but refused to pursue him, while Obito and Danzo survived the battle at the Uchiha compound.

• Neji blocked Konoha’s combined attacks with a chakra-bead shield, then used the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to overwhelm Hiruzen’s Five Release technique and kill dozens of shinobi.
• Neji freed Yugito and flew away with her and Naruto, warning Hiruzen not to pursue them.
• Hyuga Gensuke identified the masked attacker as Neji, but Hiruzen declined to order a pursuit and led the surviving shinobi toward the Uchiha compound.
• Danzo stood over Fugaku’s corpse after Obito had helped defeat him, and Obito discovered that Fugaku had destroyed his own Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Obito revealed his space-time ability to Danzo, then vanished into Kamui Space when he sensed Hiruzen approaching.

After the Uchiha left Konoha and Neji escaped with Yugito and Naruto, Hiruzen discovered a break-in and faced Aburame Ryoma’s assassination attempt. News of the Uchiha’s departure spread across the Shinobi World, and leaders began considering how to recruit the clan.

• Hiruzen learned that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had been captured and that Wood Release Cell No. 1 and the Scroll of Seals had been stolen from the records vault.
• Hiruzen found Aburame Ryoma inside the records vault, and Ryoma attacked him on Danzo’s orders to make Danzo Hokage.
• Neji collapsed from exhaustion after carrying Yugito away, so Yugito placed Naruto in the Amber Purifying Pot and carried Neji toward the Uchiha.
• Neji sensed that his mental link with Aburame Ryoma had ended and realized Ryoma was dead.
• Spies reported that the Uchiha had left Konoha after a bloody clash, prompting the daimyo of the Land of Fire and other leaders to send envoys and consider recruiting them.

After Fugaku’s death, Shisui led the fleeing Uchiha toward the Land of Waterfall while Neji coordinated support from Kumogakure and Iwagakure. In Konoha, Hiruzen confronted Danzo with evidence of his dealings with the masked man and his role in an assassination attempt, leaving Danzo under suspicion.

• The Uchiha survivors mourned Fugaku’s death, and Shisui became their clan head while Mikoto’s Sharingan silently awakened into a new form.
• Neji told Shisui to lead the Uchiha toward the Land of Waterfall, where the Fourth Raikage would meet them, and explained how Iwagakure’s involvement could deter Konoha.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Dodai to prepare support and left to meet the Uchiha, while Dodai arranged a diversion involving Killer B.
• Uchiha Inabi delivered Shisui’s distress letter to Kitsuchi, who rushed it to Ōnoki; Ōnoki decided to accept the Uchiha and personally lead medical ninja to meet them.
• Hiruzen showed Danzo photographs of the masked man who fought Fugaku and demanded to know their connection, then accused Danzo of ordering Aburame Ryoma to assassinate him.

Hiruzen stripped Danzo of his authority and disbanded Root, then redirected Konoha’s forces toward the threats from Iwagakure and Kumogakure. As the Uchiha joined Kumogakure, Dodai proposed a marriage alliance with Uchiha Mikoto, and Neji volunteered to marry her.

• Hiruzen punished Danzo by removing his authority and disbanding Root, then ordered Konoha to halt its pursuit of the Uchiha and prepare for Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• The Fourth Raikage met Shisui and welcomed the Uchiha into Kumogakure, while Dodai arrived with medical shinobi and urged them to leave the Land of the Waterfall before Iwa’s advance force arrived.
• The Fourth Raikage planned a large compound for the Uchiha, while Dodai warned that the village needed to ensure the clan became permanently integrated.
• Dodai proposed a marriage alliance between the Raikage’s faction and the Uchiha, naming Uchiha Mikoto as the suitable match.
• Neji volunteered to marry Mikoto for the sake of Kumogakure.

The Fourth Raikage approved Neji's proposal for a marriage alliance with Mikoto and asked Naruto to become his son. As the Uchiha settled in Kumogakure, Shisui and Yashiro agreed to integrate the clan into the village and planned to speak with Mikoto about the alliance.

• The Fourth Raikage agreed that Neji was a suitable match for Mikoto and later asked Naruto to be his son.
• Ōnoki realized the Uchiha had likely coordinated with Kumogakure and sent Kitsuchi to Konoha to seek an alliance.
• Mabui welcomed Shisui, Yashiro, and the Uchiha leaders to their new settlement and brought them to meet the Fourth Raikage.
• The Fourth Raikage's three-hour meeting laid out ordinary roles, benefits, and obligations for Uchiha shinobi in Kumogakure, surprising Shisui and Yashiro with how fairly they were treated.
• Shisui and Yashiro decided to help the Uchiha integrate into Kumogakure, and Shisui resolved to speak with Mikoto about the proposed marriage alliance.

Neji and Mikoto met to finalize their marriage alliance, discussing her requests and the village’s interest in her hidden Mangekyō Sharingan. After Mikoto drank too much, Neji brought her home, helped her settle in, and left for the Kumogakure apartment.

• Neji and Mikoto went to the Crimson Leaf Izakaya for dinner, where Neji chose inexpensive food and ordered sake.
• Mikoto agreed to the marriage alliance and asked Neji to protect Sasuke from being hurt and keep the arrangement secret from him.
• Neji revealed that he knew Mikoto had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and warned her not to use it unless necessary.
• Neji and the drunken Mikoto rode by carriage to her home, and he carried her inside through the back door.
• Neji helped Mikoto remove her shoes, tucked her into bed, gave her warm water, and then left for the Kumogakure apartment to meet Kana.

Kisame learned that Kirigakure would soon go to war with Kumogakure, while Neji resolved to pursue Kekkei Mōra to overcome the limits of his bloodline. At a black-market meeting, Neji accepted a job to capture Orochimaru and met the reluctant bounty hunter Raiga Kurosuki.

• Obito's masked agent ordered Kisame to prepare for war against Kumogakure, and Kisame accepted despite doubting Kirigakure could win.
• Neji concluded that he needed to attain Kekkei Mōra to challenge Kaguya and worried that his Hyuga bloodline might not withstand its power.
• Yugito told Neji that the Raikage wanted him to investigate the Land of Lightning's black market, and Neji attended its special meeting in disguise.
• The black-market boss offered bounty hunters a large payment to capture Orochimaru, prompting Raiga Kurosuki and several others to return their advance money.
• Neji took the job, introduced himself as Douyang, and told Raiga that Orochimaru was the one who should be in trouble.

Neji took command of a bounty-hunter squad tasked with capturing Orochimaru and used the political conflict between Kumogakure and the Daimyo to press the Fourth Raikage to consider his radical proposal. After Yugito asked what Neji intended to do, he warned her that the apparent peace was fragile and the roots of war remained.

• Neji subdued Raiga Kurosuki after Raiga attacked him, then forced him and the other bounty hunters to commit to the Orochimaru mission.
• The black-market boss explained that the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning had ordered Orochimaru captured because he blamed him for the Eight-Tails' Rampage and his father's death.
• Neji learned that Orochimaru had reportedly been seen in the Land of Water and accepted leadership of the Snake-Hunting Squad.
• Neji explained to the Fourth Raikage and Yugito how economic and political tensions had weakened the Daimyo's relationship with Kumogakure, then urged the Raikage to reconsider his proposal to transform the Shinobi World.
• The Fourth Raikage agreed to give Neji's proposal serious consideration, and Yugito invited Neji to her house for dinner.
• Yugito asked Neji about his plans, and he told her that the current peace was fragile because the roots of war had not been eliminated.

Neji told Yugito that lasting peace required unifying the Shinobi World and began planning how to gain the power and resources he needed. Seeking the Totsuka Blade, he visited the Uchiha records with Shisui and prepared to read the Uchiha Stone Tablet using his Tenseigan.

• Neji explained to Yugito that he intended to complete Senju Hashirama's unfinished work by unifying the Shinobi World, and Yugito pledged to support him.
• Samui waited for Neji to return, but her younger brother Atsui arrived instead and rejected Neji's leftovers.
• Neji reviewed his plans to develop his abilities and chose the Dragon Vein as a possible chakra source.
• Neji decided to search for the Totsuka Blade and asked Shisui to let him examine the Uchiha clan's records.
• Shisui brought Neji to the underground chamber containing the Uchiha Stone Tablet, and Neji began reading it with his Tenseigan.

Neji deciphered the Uchiha Stone Tablet and learned how Black Zetsu had altered its message to promote the Eye of the Moon Plan, then searched the Uchiha records for clues about sacred treasures. He found an account of Hyuga Tenin and the Uchiha clan’s decision to turn Uchiha Hikari into its “Ultimate Weapon.”

• Neji used his Tenseigan to read the tablet’s four sections and identify Black Zetsu’s alterations to the history and prophecy.
• Shisui rejected the Eye of the Moon Plan, arguing that peace achieved by manipulating people through genjutsu was false.
• Neji learned that Uchiha Madara had taken the clan’s Sharingan research records, leaving him to search the remaining archives for clues to the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror.
• A record described Hyuga Tenin as a formidable warrior who fought the Uchiha and Senju before a peace treaty ended the war.
• Neji read that Uchiha Hikari awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after her parents died, and the clan elders stripped her of her name and designated her the “Ultimate Weapon.”

Neji recruited Uchiha Izumi to accompany him on a journey to the Land of Wind while he searched for the Dragon Vein and pursued clues about the Totsuka Blade and Uchiha Hikari. Their trip began with a bounty-hunter ambush in the Land of the Waterfall, leaving Neji to wonder whether the Hyuga clan or Konoha High Command had put a price on his head.

• Neji reviewed Uchiha records, told Mikoto about the Totsuka Blade and Uchiha Hikari, and agreed to help arrange for Sasuke to train under Killer B in return for her assistance.
• Neji obtained the Fourth Raikage's permission to travel and was assigned Uchiha Izumi as his companion at Uchiha Shisui's suggestion.
• Neji and Uchiha Izumi shared dango, then agreed to travel to the Land of Wind and discussed their skills and plans for avoiding unnecessary fights.
• Several days later, two bounty hunters ambushed Neji and Izumi in the Land of the Waterfall, but Neji's Shadow Clone fooled them and Izumi killed both attackers.
• Neji found a bounty notice offering seventy million for his capture and suspected the Hyuga clan or Konoha High Command had ordered the hit.

Neji tracked down the Loulan remnants and pressured Princess Sara to help him claim the sealed Dragon Vein, while other shinobi pursued their own missions. Sara agreed to help on the condition that Neji spare her people.

• Neji learned from a Hyuga spy that the Hyuga clan had erased records of Hyuga Tenin and ordered the spy to uncover the truth.
• Katsushiro gave Neji a map to the Loulan remnants, and Neji instructed him to monitor activity at Hozuki Castle.
• Hiruko and Sasori traveled toward the Land of Wind to capture Pakura, with Hiruko promising Sasori five puppet bodies in exchange for help.
• Neji and Uchiha Izumi found the Loulan remnants’ oasis and spotted Sunagakure shinobi leaving it.
• Neji and Uchiha Izumi entered Princess Sara’s tent and demanded that she help them subdue the Dragon Vein.
• Sara agreed to help Neji obtain the Dragon Vein if he promised not to harm her people.

Neji broke the seals on the Dragon Vein and used Queen Sara’s authority over it to draw its chakra into the Amber Purifying Pot. After taking the Dragon Vein, he warned Sara that Sunagakure would soon pursue the Rōran refugees and urged her to leave the Land of Wind.

• Neji inferred that Sunagakure was using a head tax to pressure Sara’s people and took Sara to the ruins of Rōran.
• Neji released the Eight Trigrams Seal and Contract Seal, then shattered the Sword of the Heart to free the Dragon Vein.
• Neji opened the Amber Purifying Pot and pulled the Dragon Vein toward it while Sara commanded it to submit.
• The Dragon Vein’s chakra entered the pot, severing Sara’s spiritual connection to it.
• Neji flew Sara back to the oasis and warned her to leave the Land of Wind before Sunagakure traced the theft to her people.

Sara chose to take the Rōran survivors to Kumogakure with Neji’s help, while Neji stayed behind to face Sunagakure’s pursuit team. As Kirigakure invaded Kumogakure’s eastern coastline, Neji learned that Obito was finally making his move.

• Neji offered Sara a choice between settling the Rōran survivors in the Land of Demons for a hundred million or escorting them to Kumogakure, and Sara chose Kumogakure.
• Neji sent Uchiha Izumi to escort the Rōran caravan to the Land of Lightning and stayed behind to confront Sunagakure’s pursuit team.
• Rasa blamed Konoha for the Dragon Vein’s theft and ordered Pakura to intercept the migrating Rōran survivors.
• The Fourth Raikage announced Kirigakure’s invasion and deployed Kumogakure’s forces, assigning Killer B to the western border and Uchiha Shisui to the Land of Hot Water front.
• Neji sensed the approaching Sunagakure pursuers, then received news that Kirigakure had invaded and concluded that Obito had begun making his move.

Neji lured Sunagakure’s pursuit squads into the desert and revealed overwhelming power by surviving their attacks before forming a massive golden sword. Meanwhile, Pakura raced toward the golden light but was ambushed by Hiruko and Sasori, ending the chapter with blood splashing across her face.

• Sasori told Hiruko that Pakura had left the village, and they prepared to capture her alive.
• Neji drew dozens of Sunagakure shinobi away from the Rōran caravan and attacked them from the sky in Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Neji’s chakra-bead shield withstood the squad’s combined techniques and eighty thousand Explosive Tags, after which he formed a hundred-meter golden blade.
• Pakura spotted the golden light on the horizon and rushed toward it, leaving the rest of her squad behind.
• Hiruko and Sasori ambushed Pakura with traps and a summoned beast, but Pakura struck at Hiruko and was splashed with blood when a scorpion tail pulled him down.

Neji tracked down Sasori and Hiruko after discovering the Sunagakure pursuit force had been wiped out, and Sasori revealed that Rasa had helped him kill the Third Kazekage. As Sasori attacked Neji with the Third Kazekage puppet, Neji destroyed his Iron Sand pyramid and struck him with God Vacuum Attack.

• Neji learned through the surviving Puppeteer jonin that Pakura was leading Sunagakure's main pursuit force and set out to confront it.
• Neji found Sasori and Hiruko beside the bodies of the pursuit force, with Pakura unconscious among them.
• Sasori summoned the Third Kazekage puppet, and Hiruko recognized it as the missing Kazekage.
• Sasori revealed that Rasa had conspired with him to kill the Third Kazekage and had arranged Pakura's capture; Pakura rejected the accusation before realizing Sasori's ambush supported it.
• Sasori attacked Neji with Iron Sand senbon and a pyramid, but Neji repelled the senbon and shattered the pyramid with God Vacuum Attack, sending the attack into Sasori.

Neji captured Hiruko, pursued Sasori, and saved the poisoned Pakura, then tried to bring Sasori under his control. In Kirigakure, Orochimaru found Haku, a Yuki Clan descendant, and took him in while considering him as a candidate for the Heavenly Cursed Seal.

• Sasori unleashed his hundred puppets as Hiruko fled, but Neji destroyed part of the puppet army and pursued both men separately.
• Neji caught Hiruko, placed a Curse Seal of the Mind on him, and found Pakura poisoned with only a breath left.
• Neji forced Sasori to hand over an antidote, revived Pakura with it and Dragon Vein chakra, and discovered his mind seal could not control Sasori's Regeneration Core.
• Orochimaru killed a thug who attacked him in Kirigakure and noticed Haku, a girl with an extreme cold chakra, watching from nearby.
• Orochimaru recognized Haku as a Yuki Clan descendant and persuaded him to come along, then considered whether Haku could withstand the Heavenly Cursed Seal.

Rasa concealed Pakura’s apparent death and the Dragon Vein’s disappearance while Neji studied the Chimera Technique and considered how White Zetsu might help fix its flaws. Pakura woke in Neji’s camp, learned he could control her, and agreed to serve him for ten years as he claimed he could help her develop Scorch Release.

• Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo decided to conceal Pakura’s death and the Dragon Vein’s disappearance and leave both cases to Sunagakure’s Anbu.
• Neji studied the Chimera Secret Technique and wondered whether White Zetsu could resolve its bodily and spiritual compatibility problems.
• Neji told Sasori that he had altered Hiruko’s will with the Curse Seal of the Mind and planned to use Hiruko as a spy in the Akatsuki Organization.
• Pakura woke beside Neji and Sasori in the Land of Grass, learned Neji had left something inside her that let him control her, and agreed to serve him for ten years rather than return to Sunagakure.
• Neji told Pakura he would help her develop Scorch Release, then passed on his experience developing Storm Release without knowing the precise method himself.

Neji received an S-rank mission to disrupt Kirigakure’s eastern forces and claimed he could persuade the village to ally with Kumogakure. He led a small group to Skull Island, where he launched a brutal assault and confronted commander Lin Yuyuri.

• Dodai told Neji that Kumogakure was fighting on three fronts and assigned him to help Yugito defeat Kirigakure’s eastern army.
• Neji said Kirigakure’s war effort was troubled from within and promised Dodai he had a way to secure an alliance with the village.
• Neji, Samui, Pakura, Uchiha Izumi, and Sasori reached Skull Island in one day, and Neji began his infiltration by killing the patrol shinobi who spotted them.
• Lin Yuyuri learned that the Fourth Raikage had left the eastern front and prepared to exploit his departure, but reports of an intruder drew her from her tent.
• Neji killed a Mist shinobi in front of Lin Yuyuri, then repelled her lightning-charged attack with a powerful punch and declared the Cloud’s Lightning Release the best in the world.

Neji overwhelmed the Mist ninja guarding Skull Island, captured Lin Yuyuri, and seized the island’s supply depot. After learning that Mist reinforcements were gathering, he decided to use the raid to draw them away and create an opening for Yugito.

• Lin Yuyuri recognized Neji as Star of the Clouds, but he survived the Mist ninja’s combined Water Release assault and tore through their ranks with black lightning.
• Neji killed many Mist ninja, defeated Lin Yuyuri, and captured her as she ordered her forces to retreat.
• Neji sent Uchiha Izumi to inventory the supplies and prepare the rest for destruction, then examined the command tent’s records and found that the Mist ninja had far more forces than expected.
• Lin Yuyuri warned that Kumogakure would lose the war, but Neji declared that Kirigakure would be defeated and questioned why Karatachi Yagura had stayed in the village.
• Uchiha Izumi reported that Mist reinforcements were converging on Skull Island, and Neji chose to draw their forces there instead of retreating to join Yugito.