Chapter Summaries

Feng An and Hinata decided to leave Konoha to confront the Akatsuki Organization, bringing Hanabi and Matatabi along. After Hiashi reluctantly agreed, Tsunade summoned him to a village meeting, leaving him to suspect Feng An was defecting with his daughters and the Two-Tails.

• Hinata persuaded Feng An to let her join the fight, and Feng An said Hanabi should come because Toneri was targeting her Byakugan.
• Feng An invited Matatabi to accompany them, and she agreed to leave Konoha with him and Hinata.
• Feng An sent a shadow clone to inform Tsunade, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Hinata and Matatabi to the Hyuga Residence.
• Hinata asked Hiashi to let Hanabi join them; after Feng An reassured him and Hanabi pleaded, Hiashi agreed.
• Hanabi changed into a kimono, and Feng An departed with her, Hinata, and Matatabi.
• An Anbu summoned Hiashi to a Konoha meeting, and Hiashi suspected Feng An had taken his daughters and Matatabi to defect.

Tsunade informed Konoha’s leaders that the Akatsuki had begun moving against the Tailed Beasts, then learned Feng An had taken Matatabi and the Hyuga sisters on a mission to rescue Fū in Takigakure. Hiashi panicked over Hanabi’s safety, while Tsunade wondered why Feng An had brought her along.

• Tsunade briefed Hiashi Hyuga and the assembled clan leaders on the Akatsuki’s new movements and the support mission to Sunagakure.
• Hiashi learned Feng An had left the village with the Tailed Beasts, Hinata, and Hanabi, and feared he might be fleeing with them.
• Tsunade told Hiashi that Feng An had sent a Shadow Clone to notify her but had not mentioned taking the Tailed Beasts.
• Tsunade revealed that Feng An had gone to Takigakure to rescue Fū, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, and speculated that he might trade Matatabi or attack the Akatsuki.
• Hiashi grew alarmed that Hanabi had joined the dangerous mission, and Tsunade wondered why Feng An had brought his sister-in-law along.

Feng An traveled toward Takigakure with Hinata and Hanabi, while Deidara and Sasori attacked Sunagakure and confronted Gaara. The chapter ended with Deidara taking to the sky as Gaara’s sand surged to capture him.

• Hanabi asked Feng An to speed up their journey, but he said he needed time to recover his Chakra.
• Feng An teased Hanabi and carried her under his arm as the group continued toward Takigakure.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived at Sunagakure, and Deidara killed a guard with a Clay Bomb before he could signal the village.
• Gaara intercepted the Akatsuki members, restrained Sasori’s mechanical tail with sand, and defended himself against Deidara’s Explosive Clay.
• Gaara sent a wave of sand toward Deidara, who escaped its reach by flying upward on his clay bird.

Deidara attacked Gaara and Sunagakure, forcing the Kazekage to divide his strength between fighting and protecting the village. After the villagers fled to shelter, Gaara wondered whether he had finally caught up to Naruto, but Deidara appeared above him after escaping Gaara’s sand trap.

• Deidara stayed high in the air and attacked Gaara while Sasori watched from the ground.
• Gaara told the Sunagakure shinobi behind him to leave, then raised a sand barrier to shield the village from Deidara’s clay spiders.
• Deidara sent more clay bombs at the village, and Gaara strained to protect the villagers while his sand arm failed to catch Deidara.
• Kankuro and Temari urged the stunned shinobi to retreat to the village shelter, and Gaara hoped he had caught up to Naruto.
• Gaara trapped Deidara with Sand Binding Prison, but heard Deidara’s voice overhead and realized the man in the sand was not him.

Gaara survived Deidara’s explosive clay attack inside a massive sand defense, then realized the sand may have been shaped by someone other than Shukaku. Meanwhile, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Sasuke raced toward Sunagakure, and Gaara recognized the figure in the sand as his mother.

• Deidara’s Explosive Clay Clone detonated near Gaara, badly injuring him and damaging his Sand Armor.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, and Sasuke heard the explosion and hurried toward Sunagakure, with Might Guy opening the seventh gate and pulling far ahead.
• Sasori warned Deidara to capture Gaara alive, and Deidara said he had held back despite using enough clay to destroy half the village.
• Shukaku told Gaara to look up and questioned whether the enormous sand defense was his power.
• Gaara looked at the sand figure above him and recognized it as his mother.

Gaara learned that the sand protecting him was his mother Karura’s love, not Shukaku’s power, and faced Deidara without the Tailed Beast’s help. Might Guy arrived to support him and caught Sasori’s poisoned mechanical tail as it struck.

• Gaara realized Karura’s love had been protecting him through the sand, while Shukaku refused to lend him power.
• Deidara prepared to attack Gaara, who declared that he would stand as the Fifth Kazekage without Shukaku’s power.
• Might Guy intercepted Deidara with a powerful kick, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Gaara recognized Might Guy as Rock Lee’s teacher, and Guy was shocked to learn Gaara was the Kazekage.
• Gaara warned Might Guy about Sasori’s tail, but Guy turned and caught it in one hand.

Might Guy crushed Sasori’s poisoned mechanical tail with his bare hand and revealed that Deidara was still unable to move after Guy’s kick. Gaara received Chakra from Shukaku, reached Deidara, and prepared to kill him for hurting his mother.

• Might Guy shattered Sasori’s mechanical tail without being wounded, leaving Sasori unsure how to fight him.
• Deidara recovered enough to call for help, but Sasori stayed back because he could not safely reach him past Might Guy.
• Shukaku gave Gaara much of his Chakra, and Gaara thanked him before setting off toward Deidara.
• Gaara blocked Deidara’s hidden clay-spider explosion with the Shield of Shukaku and told him he would not let him live after he hurt Karura.

Deidara tricked Gaara with a fake suicide blast, then attempted to detonate himself as his ultimate art. Kakashi sent the explosive into the Kamui Dimension, where Obito was caught in the blast and activated Izanagi.

• Deidara's fake explosion let him escape Gaara's Shukaku Spear, while Gaara hesitated to use his Absolute Defense because he believed it came from his mother's love.
• Deidara revealed the mouth sewn into his chest and ate Explosive Clay, declaring that he would turn himself into his masterpiece despite Sasori's warning to capture Gaara alive.
• Gaara hurled his Shukaku Spear at Deidara, but Deidara's body turned transparent as the clay in his chest began swelling toward a massive explosion.
• Kakashi used Lightning Cutter to halt the chest-mouth's expansion, then activated Kamui and transferred the explosive into the Kamui Dimension.
• Obito was caught in the explosion inside the Kamui Dimension and activated Izanagi as the blast engulfed him.

Obito Uchiha escaped Kakashi’s transported explosion by sacrificing his left Sharingan with Izanagi, then left the Kamui Dimension with Itachi. In Sunagakure, Kakashi saved Gaara from Deidara’s blast, while Might Guy struck Sasori and discovered something strange about his body.

• Obito Uchiha used Izanagi to survive the explosion Kakashi transported into the Kamui Dimension, sacrificing his left Sharingan before escaping.
• Obito Uchiha told Itachi Uchiha that he had merely fallen, then urged him to hurry and find the Four-Tails or Five-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Kakashi introduced himself to Gaara, who thanked him for stopping Deidara’s explosive attack.
• Might Guy joked with Kakashi about their secret techniques, while Sasori decided to flee rather than face the three opponents.
• Might Guy caught Sasori and punched him, then rushed over when cracking sounds came from Sasori’s fallen body.
• Might Guy was stunned when he saw what Sasori’s body had become.

Might Guy, Kakashi, and Gaara discovered that Sasori had become a Human Puppet and fought him as he unleashed his puppet army. The battle left Guy poisoned and unable to maintain the Sixth Gate.

• Might Guy dodged a blade from underground, smashed one Human Puppet, and was wounded by Sasori’s red-haired puppet.
• Gaara recognized the red-haired puppet as Sasori of the Red Sand and recalled his history as a genius Puppet Master.
• Sasori recognized Kakashi as the Konoha White Fang and sent poisoned puppets to attack Kakashi and Gaara.
• Gaara destroyed the puppets attacking him, while Kakashi used a Lightning Release Clone and charged Sasori with Lightning Cutter.
• Sasori blocked Kakashi with more poisoned puppets, and Might Guy’s body went numb as the Sixth Gate closed.
• Might Guy realized Sasori had poisoned him through the wound on his arm.

Gaara confronted Sasori while Kakashi took the poisoned Might Guy into Sunagakure for treatment. Sasori revealed that he had made the Third Kazekage into a Human Puppet, and the chapter ended as Gaara charged and the puppet unleashed Iron Sand.

• Sasori's puppet attacked Kakashi, but Gaara blocked it with the Shield of Shukaku.
• Kakashi carried the poisoned Might Guy into the village to find Chiyo, after Guy agreed to get treatment.
• Uchiha Sasuke arrived, but Gaara told him to stay out of the fight.
• Sasori recalled his puppets and summoned a Human Puppet made from the Third Kazekage.
• Sasori taunted Gaara about his mother, prompting Gaara to charge as the Third Kazekage used Magnetic Release: Rain of Iron Sand.

Gaara used Shukaku’s power to overwhelm Sasori and destroy the Third Kazekage Human Puppet. As Sasori revealed his puppet body and called himself his own eternal work of art, Gaara trapped his arms and closed a giant sand maw around him.

• Gaara called on Shukaku’s power and sent a vast tide of sand against Sasori’s iron sand.
• Sasori’s iron sand pierced Gaara’s sand, but Gaara’s overwhelming volume drained Sasori’s Chakra through the Third Kazekage Human Puppet.
• Gaara buried and crushed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, severing Sasori’s connection to it.
• Sasori revealed his puppet body and attacked Gaara’s giant Shukaku-shaped sand claw with his spinning blades.
• Gaara transformed the sand claw into a binding prison that trapped Sasori’s hands and began closing around him.

Sasori fought Gaara and faced his grandmother Chiyo, who tried to bring him back by showing him the puppets of his parents. Chiyo ultimately used the parent puppets to kill Sasori, and he accepted his death.

• Sasori escaped Gaara's Sand Binding Prison by sacrificing his arms, but Gaara destroyed them in the sand.
• Chiyo confronted Sasori and asked why he had become cruel; Sasori spoke of eternal art and offered to turn her into a Human Puppet.
• Chiyo summoned the puppets of Sasori's parents and urged him to return, but Sasori attacked her.
• Gaara trapped Sasori in the Sand Binding Prison, and Chiyo asked to kill him herself using his parents' puppets.
• Chiyo sent the parent puppets to pierce Sasori's heart, and Sasori stopped resisting and died.

Gaara brought Sasuke back to Sunagakure, where Chiyo reunited with Sasori and Kakashi reported that Might Guy was recovering from poison. Meanwhile, Feng An and his companions reached Takigakure and met Kaede, who made Hanabi her newest friend.

• Chiyo asked Gaara for permission to take Sasori home, and Ebizo helped her bring Sasori and his parents back.
• Gaara invited Sasuke to return to Sunagakure, and Sasuke accepted after hearing Kakashi and Might Guy were there.
• Kakashi told Gaara that Might Guy could not gather Chakra because of Sasori's poison, but Chiyo expected him to recover within two days.
• Feng An, Hinata, and Hanabi arrived at Takigakure, where Kaede flew out to greet Feng An and Hinata.
• Kaede introduced herself to Hanabi, declared them friends, and wondered how many friends she had made so far.

Feng An warned Kaede that the Akatsuki planned to target her, but Hidan and Kakuzu arrived before they could enter the village. Kakuzu mistook Feng An for the notorious Red, then relaxed when Feng An gave his real name, and Feng An prepared to fight the pair.

• Feng An told Kaede that the Akatsuki was hunting Tailed Beasts and that she was one of their targets.
• Seven-Tails Chomei sensed someone approaching, and Two-Tails Matatabi warned Feng An.
• Feng An sent Hinata and Hanabi into the village while he and Kaede stayed behind.
• Hidan and Kakuzu arrived and chose Feng An and Kaede as their opponents.
• Kakuzu mistook red-haired Feng An for Red, then calmed down after learning his name, while Hidan mocked him.
• Feng An told Hidan and Kakuzu to stop delaying as the ground began to shake around him.

Feng An used Wood Release to defeat Kakuzu and trap the immortal Hidan, leaving Hidan suspended above the bloodied ground. Hinata and Kaede watched from behind the waterfall, and Feng An questioned how Hidan could survive losing so much blood.

• Kakuzu recognized Feng An's Wood Release and asked whether Yi was his real name.
• Feng An's trees impaled Hidan and trapped Kakuzu, whose combined Fire and Wind Release failed to break through.
• Feng An crushed Kakuzu inside the trees, and Hidan realized Kakuzu's hearts and black threads had been destroyed.
• Matatabi calmed down while Hinata and Kaede watched Feng An emerge unharmed from the fight.
• Feng An asked how Hidan could survive losing so much blood, and Hidan taunted him to come closer.

Feng An defeated Hidan and Kakuzu, burned Hidan’s head to test his supposed immortality, and buried their bodies in a pit. After settling the incident, he agreed to look around Takigakure with Kaede.

• Feng An beheaded Hidan with a kunai, and Hidan called for Kakuzu before realizing Kakuzu was dead.
• Feng An burned Hidan’s head with Lantern Ghost Jutsu, and Hidan’s screams faded as he died.
• Feng An used Earth Release and controlled trees to toss Hidan and Kakuzu into a pit, then left it unfilled.
• Hinata watched from behind the waterfall and wondered why Feng An had seemed unusually cruel and curious about Hidan’s immortality.
• Kaede invited Feng An to look around Takigakure, and he agreed.

Otsutsuki Toneri arrived at the Hyuga training ground and demanded cooperation from Hyuga Hiashi in carrying out Otsutsuki Hamura’s wish to protect the shinobi world. He revealed that his plan was to reshuffle the shinobi world, leaving Hiashi and the other Hyuga clansmen alarmed.

• Hyuga Hiashi watched Main Family and branch family members train together and pushed them to work harder.
• Hyuga Kō and the other clansmen sensed a powerful pressure, and Otsutsuki Toneri appeared behind Hyuga Hiashi.
• Hyuga Hiashi activated his Byakugan and attacked Toneri with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, but the strike passed through him.
• Otsutsuki Toneri revealed his name and claimed to be from the Hyuga main house, while puppets subdued the clansman sent to notify Tsunade.
• Hyuga Hiashi recognized the connection to the clan’s records of Otsutsuki Hamura and asked Toneri what cooperation meant.
• Otsutsuki Toneri said they would protect the shinobi world by reshuffling it, shocking Hyuga Hiashi and the others.

Otsutsuki Toneri urged Hyuga Hiashi to give him his Byakugan so he could awaken the Tenseigan and reshape the ninja world to end all wars. Hiashi rejected Toneri’s demand and insisted that Toneri hand over Hamura’s bloodline to the Hyuga Clan instead.

• Toneri explained that he planned to start and end the Fourth Great Ninja War to prevent any future wars.
• Hiashi asked how Toneri could guarantee lasting peace, and Toneri demanded Hiashi’s Byakugan to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Hiashi told Hyuga Kō and the other clansmen that the Tenseigan required pure Byakugan and Hamura’s bloodline, and explained Toneri’s connection to the giant Golden Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Kō activated his Byakugan despite Toneri’s pressure, and Toneri said he could use Kō’s eyes if Hiashi’s failed.
• Hiashi realized he had nearly yielded to Toneri, then countered by demanding that Toneri share Hamura’s bloodline so the Hyuga could awaken their own Tenseigan.
• Toneri refused to hand over the power of his bloodline.

Otsutsuki Toneri surrounded the Hyuga Clan with a puppet army and demanded their Byakugan. Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Kō fought back with Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation, but Toneri remained unharmed as he advanced toward them.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Kō refused Toneri's demand for the Byakugan and realized the puppet army had captured Hyuga Ryūsei and surrounded them.
• Toneri sent the puppets into the training ground, where they restrained the Hyuga clansmen and overwhelmed Hyuga Kō and Hiashi.
• Toneri approached Hiashi and urged him to surrender his eyes while the restrained clansmen encouraged their clan head.
• Hiashi unleashed Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation, destroying the surrounding puppets, and Kō joined him with a second Rotation.
• Toneri emerged unharmed from the attack and continued toward Hiashi, who stared at him in disbelief.