Chapter Summaries

Neji used Gato’s execution and takeover of his businesses to gain the people’s support and force the Daimyo of the Land of Waves to surrender the country for one coin. After the daimyos of the Land of Water and Land of Lightning opposed the Maritime Trade Route plan, Neji remained determined to challenge their authority and turned to Samui for comfort.

• Kumogakure’s Anbu investigated Gato’s wealth, uncovered his payments to the Daimyo of the Land of Waves, and took over his industries.
• Neji wrote a plan to execute Gato publicly, overthrow the daimyo, and establish control of the country, while Mei warned him about the risks.
• At the execution grounds, Tazuna praised the Cloud Ninja, Neji executed Gato, and the crowd seized Gato’s mansion as Tazuna took charge of the shipping company.
• Neji threatened the Daimyo of the Land of Waves and made him agree to sell the country for one coin and his life.
• Three days later, Mei told Neji that the Daimyo of the Land of Water had vetoed the Maritime Trade Route plan, while Neji revealed that the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning had also ordered him to stop.
• Neji argued that the villages could develop without their daimyos, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to visit Samui, who peeled him a pomelo.

Neji and Kumogakure’s leaders responded to the daimyo’s threat to cut military funding as Orochimaru launched a staged attack on the daimyo’s palace. Neji arrived to confront Orochimaru, and the chapter ended with both men maintaining their cover after a fierce battle.

• Neji told Dodai he aimed to finish the unification Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara had left unfinished, and Dodai agreed to support him.
• A messenger reported that Orochimaru had attacked the daimyo, gravely injured him, and killed his heir, so the Fourth Raikage sent Neji and Yugito’s reinforcements to the capital.
• Orochimaru and Manda devastated the daimyo’s compound while the Guardian Ninja tried to defend the central palace.
• Neji arrived, drove Manda away, and battled Orochimaru after he summoned the Eight-Branched Serpent.
• Neji destroyed the serpent with his Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and Orochimaru acknowledged his strength while Neji declared that he would stop the scheme.

Neji used the daimyo’s dying declaration to become Grand Minister of State and guardian of the young heir, Sora, then began consolidating control of the Land of Lightning’s capital. After the officials accepted his authority, he announced that Kumogakure shinobi would take over the capital’s defenses.

• Neji pretended to be exhausted after driving Orochimaru away and visited the mortally wounded Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, Gen'nen.
• Neji used Yin Release energy and the Curse Seal of the Mind to influence Gen'nen, who entrusted his youngest son, Sora, to Neji and appointed him Grand Minister of State.
• Sora bowed to Neji as his master, and Gen'nen died after asking Neji to protect and teach the boy.
• Yugito arrived before dawn with twenty elite jōnin, while two more battalions led by Dodai were on their way to the capital.
• Neji arrested Left Minister Matsumoto Kiku using forged evidence that implicated him in Orochimaru’s attack, and the officials acknowledged Neji’s authority.
• Neji assigned Right Minister Abe Hisa to arrange Gen'nen’s funeral and declared that Kumogakure shinobi would take over the capital’s defenses.

Neji secured control of the Land of Lightning’s capital, while Orochimaru began testing Shikotsumyaku gene serums on Hinata in hopes of awakening the Tenseigan. Hinata survived two injections and gained the Shikotsumyaku bloodline before Orochimaru administered the third dose.

• Neji ordered Kumogakure shinobi to take over the capital and had Yugito deal with the Guardian Ninja who opposed him.
• Neji’s forces secured the capital, and he stayed to gather intelligence on its officials and seize the nobles’ wealth.
• Orochimaru learned that three gene serums had been cultivated and ordered Guren to bring Hinata to the laboratory for human trials.
• Hinata demonstrated her Byakugan and Gentle Lion Twin Fists before Orochimaru explained that the treatment might help her awaken the Tenseigan.
• Hinata absorbed the first serum, which greatly increased her chakra and physical strength, then endured the painful second injection and manifested Shikotsumyaku.
• Orochimaru injected Hinata with the third dose of gene serum.

Hinata survived the failed Tenseigan awakening when two distant chakra sources restored her body and resonated with her eyes. The moon’s Giant Tenseigan manifested in the sky before its keepers concealed it, while Neji, the villages, and Obito learned of the threat from the moon.

• Orochimaru gave Hinata the third serum, but her Tenseigan awakening drained her and left Orochimaru and Guren unconscious.
• Two chakra sources flowed into Hinata, restoring her body as she sensed one from the moon and another from a sealed eye in a Hyuga cemetery.
• The Giant Tenseigan appeared as a golden sphere in the sky, and Neji recognized the Byakugan covering its surface.
• Ōnoki learned that the Akatsuki Organization was ending its cooperation with Iwagakure, while Mei Terumi’s team examined photographs of the sphere.
• The moon’s Otsutsuki elders debated the awakening and ordered a sealing technique that made the sphere vanish.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that the moon’s Hyuga clan planned to destroy the Shinobi World and rebuild it among the ruins.

Neji and Orochimaru joined forces to investigate the Giant Tenseigan, while Neji and Hinata searched the Kaguya Clan’s records for clues about Hyuga Tenin. The records revealed that Tenin had defeated the Senju and Uchiha leaders, refused to help the Kaguya Clan, and later died amid strange circumstances.

• Obito questioned Black Zetsu about why Madara had hidden information about the Hyuga on the moon and their threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Neji received Taichi’s message about the Kaguya Clan and planned to investigate its history, but Orochimaru summoned him and introduced Hinata, whose Tenseigan had awakened successfully.
• Orochimaru told Neji that a Giant Tenseigan existed in the sea south of the Land of Fire, and Neji agreed to cooperate with him in finding it.
• Neji, Orochimaru, and Hinata traveled to Kirigakure, where Mei Terumi agreed to let them investigate the Kaguya Clan’s history after Orochimaru agreed to help her reform the Land of Water.
• Neji and Hinata searched the Kaguya Clan records and found an account describing how Hyuga Tenin defeated the Senju and Uchiha leaders, refused to aid the Kaguya Clan, and died three years later.
• The Kaguya Clan Head’s account said that Hyuga clan members seemed joyful rather than sorrowful at Tenin’s funeral.

Neji and Hinata found the Hyuga clan’s cemetery and the Giant Tenseigan, where a puppet showed them memories of the Hyuga twins’ past. The memories began revealing why Hyuga Tenin had resisted the clan’s ambitions.

• Neji learned that Hyuga Tenin had sealed the Giant Tenseigan to save the clan from its chakra drain, and he asked Yugito to send Anbu to search for it.
• Obito and Zetsu searched the Land of Hot Water for a passage between the moon and the earth, then encountered weapon-wielding puppets who recognized Obito’s Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Neji and Hinata investigated three islands, found the Hyuga cemetery on the last one, and entered its cave to locate the Giant Tenseigan.
• A puppet awakened in the cemetery, gave Neji and Hinata a spirit orb, and showed them memories of Hyuga Tatsu and his twin brother competing to become clan successor.
• After winning the succession duel, Hyuga Tatsu urged his father not to destroy the Sarutobi Clan, warning that the Senju Clan might intervene.

Hyuga Tatsu sacrificed himself to complete the Giant Tenseigan, while Hyuga Tatsuya took his older brother’s name and used its power to end the war. After defeating the Senju and Uchiha leaders, Hyuga Tatsu made peace, leaving his father questioning whether his brother’s sacrifice had been in vain.

• The Hyuga clan head rejected Hyuga Tatsu’s warning, and the Hyuga clan went to war against the Kurama, Senju, and Uchiha clans.
• Hyuga Tatsu discovered that the Giant Tenseigan needed exceptionally pure Byakugan and chose to sacrifice himself rather than let Hyuga Tatsuya die.
• Hyuga Tatsuya learned the truth and fought his way toward the shrine, but Hyuga Tatsu defeated him and insisted that his sacrifice was his own choice.
• Hyuga Tatsuya returned a week later carrying his brother’s Ninja Blade and took the name Hyuga Tatsu.
• Hyuga Tatsu, wielding the Giant Tenseigan, defeated the Senju and Uchiha clan leaders and signed peace treaties with the factions.
• The Hyuga clan head questioned Hyuga Tatsu’s decision to make peace, arguing that it made his brother’s death seem pointless.

Neji learned how the Giant Tenseigan led Hyuga Tatsu to create the Caged Bird Seal and the Main and Branch Family System, then discovered the Giant Tenseigan controlled the seal. As Neji invited Hinata to join him in Kumogakure, Jiraiya faced an attack by mysterious puppets, and Kakashi rushed to help.

• Hyuga Tatsu warned the Hyuga clan head that the Giant Tenseigan drained Byakugan chakra, then traveled to the moon and later sealed it in the Hyuga cemetery.
• Hyuga Tatsu created the Caged Bird Seal and established the Main and Branch Family System before dying, leaving the Hyuga clan to forget the seal's original purpose.
• Neji explained the Giant Tenseigan's history to Hinata, admitted that he had killed Hyuga Hiashi, and invited her to join him in Kumogakure.
• Neji broke the seal on the Giant Tenseigan, fed it Dragon Vein chakra, and discovered that the Hyuga clan had controlled the Caged Bird Seal through it.
• A mysterious puppet figure and more than ten puppet shinobi attacked Jiraiya near Konoha, and Jiraiya fought back with Fire Release and a Rasengan.
• Kakashi warned Gekko Hayate and Yugao to keep other shinobi away, then hurried toward the back mountains to assist Jiraiya.

After the Otsutsuki on the moon began preparing to destroy the world, Neji urged the villages to hold a Five Kage Summit and planned to restore the Giant Tenseigan. Hinata returned to the Hyuga compound but refused to become clan head, leaving the clan’s leadership unresolved.

• Jiraiya explained the history of Hagoromo and Hamura Otsutsuki after the moon clan’s puppet warned that it would reshape the world, and Shikaku Nara reported Hyuga Gensuke’s murder and the theft of his Byakugan.
• Obito and Black Zetsu agreed to seek Orochimaru’s help, while Neji learned that the Otsutsuki had stolen Hyuga Gensuke’s Byakugan and recognized their plan to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Neji warned Kumogakure’s leaders that the Otsutsuki intended to make the moon crash into the world, and they proposed a Five Kage Summit and preparations to defend against the impact.
• Konoha agreed to host the summit after Sunagakure and Iwagakure hesitated, and Neji traveled there with the Fourth Raikage to restore the Giant Tenseigan using Byakugan and Dragon Vein chakra.
• Hinata returned to the Hyuga compound, rejected the clan head position, and sat beside Hanabi while Neji watched from the corridor.

Neji claimed leadership of the Hyuga clan by using the Caged Bird Seal to subdue its elders, while the Five Kage Summit produced a limited alliance against the Otsutsuki threat. Obito arranged for Ōnoki to help Yomi revive Gashadokuro and confronted Orochimaru to obtain his improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

• Neji entered the Hyuga meeting, activated the Caged Bird Seal on Hyuga Gen, and took the clan head's seat as the clan's Main Family members submitted.
• Neji announced that the Main Family of his generation would receive the Caged Bird Seal and outlined how seals would be assigned to the next generation; Hanabi and the others acknowledged him as clan head.
• At the Five Kage Summit, Kakashi urged the villages to unite against the Otsutsuki, and Konoha, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure formed an alliance while Iwagakure and Sunagakure stayed outside it.
• Obito decided to use Yomi and the Ghost Army to draw Ōnoki into action, and Ōnoki agreed to help Yomi break Gashadokuro's seal in exchange for an attack on Kumogakure.
• Obito found Orochimaru on an island in the Land of Water and demanded his improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu after evading Orochimaru's traps.

Orochimaru summoned the First and Second Hokage to fight Obito after he refused to trade his Mangekyō Sharingan for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu. The weakened Hokage held Obito off with their techniques and teamwork, while Orochimaru watched for a chance to exploit Obito’s lack of sealing skills.

• Obito attacked Orochimaru with Kamui Shuriken, but Orochimaru survived by shedding his body and summoned Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hashirama and Tobirama recognized Obito as someone connected to Uchiha Madara and charged at him to capture him and question him.
• Obito discovered that the Hokage were weakened by unsuitable sacrifices and Orochimaru’s seals, then struck them back with his Gunbai and Kamui.
• Hashirama used Deep Forest Emergence while Tobirama attacked with Water Severing Wave and Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, forcing Obito to evade and fight through the trees.
• Orochimaru observed that the Hokage could only be countered effectively with high-level sealing jutsu, which Obito did not appear to know.

Orochimaru escaped Obito and told Neji about the attack, while Neji revealed Obito’s Eye of the Moon Plan and the danger posed by the falling moon. As the villages prepared for the approaching disaster, Neji set out to confront the lunar Otsutsuki and ordered Orochimaru to help Obito capture the Tailed Beasts.

• Orochimaru escaped Obito’s attempt to seize the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and used Reverse Summoning to reach Kumogakure with Guren.
• Neji told Orochimaru that Obito planned to gather the Tailed Beasts and that Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed in the moon, which was beginning to fall toward the Shinobi World.
• The lunar Grand Elder revealed his plan to destroy the Shinobi World, spare Toneri, and rebuild humanity after the moon struck.
• Neji warned the leaders of Kumogakure, Konoha, and Kirigakure that the moon would collide with the planet within twelve hours and explained the scale of the devastation.
• Neji shared details of Obito’s plan and countermeasures with the village leaders, then said he would handle the enemy on the moon.
• Neji refused Orochimaru’s offer to accompany him and instead asked Orochimaru to work with Obito to capture the Tailed Beasts.

Neji traveled to the moon to investigate Kaguya Otsutsuki’s seal and encountered the lunar Ōtsutsuki clan. As Jigen sought Nagato’s Rinnegan on Earth, Neji’s attack shattered part of the artificial sun, prompting the Grand Elder to awaken the Tenseigan and prepare to fight.

• Neji said goodbye to Yugito and the others, marked them with Flying Thunder God Marks, and traveled through a passage in the Land of Hot Water to the moon.
• Obito ordered Mui to take the Box of Paradise to Kumogakure, while Jigen learned that Nagato possessed the Rinnegan and decided to locate him.
• Jigen absorbed chakra from a juvenile Ten-Tails but stopped when Jigen’s vessel could not withstand more, and he considered Nagato as a stronger vessel.
• Neji found the ruins of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family compound, repelled the clan’s puppet attack, and blasted a huge fissure through the artificial sun’s sky.
• The Grand Elder sent Otsutsuki Toneri into the sealed Tenseigan Chamber and awakened the Tenseigan as Neji broke through the artificial sun’s shell.
• A burst of golden light appeared on the falling moon, and observers on Earth saw that one corner of the moon was missing.

As meteors devastated the Shinobi World, Obito captured Gaara and Yomi began releasing Gashadokuro with help from Iwagakure shinobi. On the moon, Neji fought the Grand Elder, who attacked him with the Giant Tenseigan, while Old Chiyo’s puppet sent Kankuro to find the Raikage.

• Ōnoki, Akatsuchi, and Kitsuchi organized Iwagakure’s defenses against the meteor shower, while Obito watched Sunagakure suffer and confronted Gaara.
• Neji fought the Grand Elder on the moon, destroying Hamura’s statue with the Eight Inner Gates before the Grand Elder attacked him with the Giant Tenseigan.
• Obito captured Gaara with Kamui, learned Kisame was pursuing the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, and heard that the Star of the Clouds had gone to the moon.
• Kankuro found Old Chiyo’s puppet, which told him to go to Kumogakure and find the Raikage.
• Yomi entered the Land of Demons temple with Iwagakure shinobi and prepared to release Gashadokuro, while the squad leader’s clay clone was disabled by Yomi’s dark aura.

Yomi freed Gashadokuro and gained its Dark Chakra, while Neji defeated the lunar Grand Elder, absorbed the Giant Tenseigan, and learned about the Black Eye. In Amegakure, Obito confronted Nagato and Hiruko, and Hiruko suddenly attacked Nagato for his Rinnegan.

• Yomi revealed he had served Gashadokuro for decades, offered his body as a vessel, and gained enough power to break free from the buried palace and kill four Iwa shinobi.
• Neji defeated the Grand Elder, read his memories, and learned that the Black Eye was one possible Byakugan evolution with the powers Sukunahikona and Daikokuten.
• Neji absorbed the lunar Giant Tenseigan's chakra, stored it in the Amber Purifying Pot, and flew toward the passage beneath the lunar palace that led to Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Nagato and Konan watched the moon return to its place, then Hiruko arrived and reported that Obito had taken control of the Akatsuki Organization.
• Obito confronted Nagato and demanded his Rinnegan, while Konan and Hiruko prepared to fight him.
• Obito attacked Hiruko with Kamui, but Nagato repelled him with Shinra Tensei, and Hiruko seized the opening to reach for Nagato's left eye.

Obito stole one of Nagato’s Rinnegan and revealed that Uchiha Madara had manipulated Nagato and that Obito had orchestrated Yahiko’s death. Nagato and Konan resolved to go to Kumogakure, while Obito implanted the stolen eye and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path before Orochimaru arrived seeking cooperation with an army of reanimated shinobi.

• Obito used Hiruko to gouge out Nagato’s left Rinnegan, escaped with it, and told Nagato and Konan that the eyes belonged to Uchiha Madara and that Nagato had been intended as a pawn.
• Obito admitted that he had arranged Yahiko’s death by killing Kyūsuke and Buddha and manipulating Danzo and Hanzō, then vanished before Nagato and Konan could stop him.
• Nagato deduced that Obito had likely controlled Hiruko and vowed to avenge Yahiko, then decided to go to Kumogakure with Konan.
• Hidan fought Rōshi and was defeated, so Kakuzu went up the mountain to capture the Four-Tails Jinchuriki; meanwhile, Kisame captured the Five-Tails Jinchuriki and headed for Takigakure.
• Obito gave Nagato’s stolen Rinnegan to Zetsu to implant in his forehead, then used it to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Orochimaru appeared in Obito’s cave and offered to cooperate, summoning coffins containing Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, Mū, Rasa, and several other dead shinobi.

Orochimaru offered to cooperate with Obito in exchange for seeing the Ten-Tails, and Obito agreed after Orochimaru revealed Uchiha Madara’s body. On the moon, Neji released Kaguya Otsutsuki and fought her, then asked about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki after overpowering her.

• Orochimaru summoned former Kage and offered Obito help gathering the Tailed Beasts in exchange for seeing the Ten-Tails.
• Orochimaru revealed Uchiha Madara’s corpse, and Obito agreed to go with him to Kumogakure.
• Neji used the Grand Elder’s technique to break Kaguya Otsutsuki’s seal and release her on the moon.
• Kaguya attacked Neji, who opened the Gate of Death and fought her as the moon began to break apart.
• Neji learned to imitate Kaguya’s Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, wounded her with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and asked whether she remembered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Mui opened the Box of Paradise hoping to revive his son, but it released the monstrous Gō, which attacked Kumogakure. As Uchiha Hikari confronted Gō, reanimated former Kage arrived to seize Kumogakure’s Jinchuriki.

• Neji told Kaguya that Isshiki had survived and that the Ōtsutsuki Main Family had sent people to Earth.
• Mui wished for Muku to return, and the Box of Paradise released a boy who killed Mui and transformed into Gō.
• Gō took the Box of Paradise and flew toward Kumogakure, where it broke through the village’s defenses and fought Tsunade.
• Uchiha Hikari blocked Gō with her red giant and prepared to face the monster as it launched a storm of black feathers.
• Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, the Third Raikage, and other reanimated figures confronted the Fourth Raikage and demanded Kumogakure’s Jinchuriki.

Senju Hashirama and the other Impure World Reincarnation Kage subdued Kumogakure, where Shisui and Uchiha Hikari revealed that the Uchiha clan had left Konoha. When Orochimaru tried to direct Hashirama against the Tailed Beasts, Tobirama stabbed him and Hashirama sealed him, leaving Obito to face the revived Kage as Madara appeared.

• Hashirama unleashed Wood Release across Kumogakure as the Kage and Raikage fought, while Killer B, Yugito, and Utakata transformed into their Tailed Beasts.
• Tobirama teleported Killer B's Tailed Beast Ball away, and Hashirama used True Several Thousand Hands to halt the battles and pin down the Kage.
• Shisui told Hashirama that the Uchiha had left Konoha after being ostracized, and Hikari arrived with Goro as Hashirama recognized her powerful Mangekyo.
• Hinata appeared in Tenseigan Chakra Mode as Obito and Orochimaru arrived, and Orochimaru asked Hashirama to help capture the Tailed Beasts.
• Tobirama stabbed Orochimaru and Hashirama restrained him with Wood Release and the Gate of the Great God, while Obito evaded the Second Tsuchikage's Dust Release.
• Hashirama confronted Obito after sensing Madara's chakra in his Rinnegan, but Madara appeared first and demanded that Obito reveal his secrets.