Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Shisui told Uchiha Itachi that the Police Department was secretly preparing to buy many Explosive Tags, then decided to find a way to deal with the worsening clan situation. After the two encountered Hyuga Makoto, Makoto received side quests to help Danzo obtain Shisui’s Mangekyo and save Shisui’s life.

• Shisui told Itachi that the Police Department was discreetly strengthening its arsenal by purchasing a large number of Explosive Tags.
• Shisui asked Itachi whether the conflict could only be handled through unconventional means, and he resolved to find a way to deal with it.
• Shisui and Itachi encountered Hyuga Makoto, Neji, and Hinata while the younger pair practiced tree climbing.
• Makoto joked that the Uchiha seemed to have a happy clan, leaving Shisui and Itachi awkward before they hurried away.
• Makoto received side quests to help Danzo obtain Shisui’s Mangekyo and save Shisui’s life.

Hyuga Makoto was summoned by Hiruzen Sarutobi, who gave him an official report confirming his team’s defeat of Ao Squad and ordered him to announce the achievement to the Hyuga clan. As Makoto prepared to collect the bounty and share the news, he considered using the resulting clan turmoil to pursue an opportunity involving Uchiha Shisui and Danzo.

• Makoto trained with Neji and Hinata, sparred with Kakashi, and asked about his bounty and Medical Ninjutsu materials.
• Tenzo told Makoto and Kakashi that Hiruzen Sarutobi had summoned them, and Makoto guessed that the meeting concerned the Uchiha.
• Makoto and Kakashi encountered Uchiha Shisui leaving the Hokage’s office, then found Danzo arguing with Hiruzen about a plan before departing.
• Hiruzen gave Kakashi and Makoto the mission report confirming they had killed Ao Squad and said the Hyuga had prepared Makoto’s bounty.
• Hiruzen asked Makoto to announce his achievement to the entire Hyuga clan, and Makoto accepted, anticipating that the news could create an opportunity for him.

Hyuga Makoto and Kakashi arrived at the Hyuga Clan to accept thanks for killing Ao, while publicly establishing Makoto as the Branch Family member who had joined the Anbu and defeated him. As the clan prepared to recognize Makoto’s contribution, Shisui was summoned to meet Danzo.

• Hyuga Hiashi defended the Hokage’s decision to support Makoto’s place in the Anbu despite objections from a Main Family elder.
• Hyuga Makoto and Kakashi arrived in Anbu gear without masks, startling the gathered Branch Family members.
• Hyuga Hiashi welcomed them and offered a scroll containing part of the Hyuga bounty as thanks for killing Ao.
• Kakashi revealed that Makoto had killed Ao, shocking the Main Family and exciting the Branch Family.
• Hyuga Hiashi congratulated Makoto and agreed to a clan celebration and a public announcement of his contribution.
• Shisui was stopped on his way back to the Uchiha and told that Danzo wanted to see him.

Hyuga Makoto gained the clan’s attention after his announcement, while Hyuga Hiashi urged him to stay restrained and thanked him for sharing Hizashi’s feelings. Makoto planned to pursue both Danzo’s and Shisui’s rewards, and as Danzo took one of Shisui’s eyes, an unknown attacker struck Danzo from behind.

• Kakashi left the Hyuga celebration after confirming the clan had heard the announcement, and Hyuga Hiashi congratulated Hyuga Makoto and warned him to remain calm.
• Hyuga Makoto told Hyuga Hiashi that Hizashi had resented the Main Branch but loved his older brother and would have protected him with his life, prompting Hiashi to thank Makoto.
• Hyuga Makoto considered slipping away from the celebration to pursue both Danzo’s and Shisui’s rewards, even if Akatsuki Organization had to suffer for it.
• Danzo confronted Shisui about using Kotoamatsukami on him, then attacked him with Root’s help and took one of his Sharingan eyes.
• Shisui escaped into the mist as Danzo admired the stolen Mangekyō Sharingan, but an unknown figure appeared behind Danzo and attacked him with a blade.

Hyuga Makoto, disguised as a masked Uchiha, ambushed Danzo and stole Shisui’s Mangekyo Sharingan before escaping the valley. Shisui gave his remaining eye to Uchiha Itachi and leapt from a cliff, triggering Itachi’s Mangekyo as an unseen watcher observed below.

• Hyuga Makoto attacked Danzo in the valley, and Danzo suspected the masked man was an Uchiha connected to Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Makoto pressed his advantage, removed Shisui’s Sharingan from Danzo’s hand, and escaped the explosion with a piece of Danzo’s flesh.
• Shisui told Uchiha Itachi that Danzo had taken his right eye and gave Itachi his remaining Sharingan.
• Shisui leapt from the cliff despite Itachi’s attempt to stop him, and Itachi’s eyes changed as an unknown figure watched from below.

Danzo explained the clash over Shisui to Hiruzen Sarutobi and blamed a masked intruder, while Hiruzen cut Root's funding and strength. Hyuga Makoto checked on the badly injured Shisui and received a reward for saving his life.

• Danzo told Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had attacked Shisui over Kotoamatsukami and claimed a masked Uchiha-like intruder had also targeted Shisui.
• A Root shinobi delivered intelligence about another red-cloud-cloaked figure moving between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers, lending weight to Danzo's claims.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reduced Root's size and cut its funding in half, warning Danzo to act more carefully.
• Hyuga Makoto returned to the valley, confirmed Shisui's serious injuries were under control, and considered how to use the Mangekyo Sharingan and Danzo's flesh.
• Hyuga Makoto's system announced that he had completed the quest to save Uchiha Shisui and rewarded him with Shisui's Yin Release and some of his traits.

Hyuga Makoto gained a large amount of Yin Release, improved his Tenseigan and Puppet Technique, and acquired a Kotoamatsukami-like ability to permanently correct one person's will. Meanwhile, Pain ordered Orochimaru to team up with Scorpion for their next mission.

• Hyuga Makoto's reward strengthened his bones and eyes, and he suspected his bones were developing the Shikotsumyaku trait.
• Hyuga Makoto created a Mental Sphere with the trait of long-term self-will correction, allowing him to control one person even after he stopped using the technique.
• Hyuga Makoto concluded that his deception had led Danzo to blame the Akatsuki Organization and resolved to keep advancing his main quest.
• Orochimaru received a summons from the Akatsuki Organization, where Deva Path Pain questioned him about his encounter with a Konoha ninja and his lack of reports.
• Deva Path Pain ordered Orochimaru and Scorpion to work together, and Orochimaru agreed to meet Scorpion in the Land of Rivers.

Hyuga Makoto trained Neji and Hinata while the Branch Family sought his favor after learning he had joined the Anbu. He agreed to train Naruto as well, but an Anbu shinobi interrupted their meal with a summons from the Hokage.

• Branch Family members warmly greeted Hyuga Makoto, hoping he would recommend them, and Neji and Hinata praised his influence and demanding training.
• Makoto explained that Uchiha Shisui was believed dead and privately considered how to help Shisui, who was alive but had lost both eyes.
• Makoto continued planning a laboratory and ways to fund it, including having Shisui help with work and Black Market missions.
• Makoto met Naruto, offered to buy him ramen, and agreed to train him after Naruto asked to join.
• After Naruto paid for a meal that left him shocked by the pile of bowls, an Anbu shinobi summoned Makoto to see the Hokage.

Hyuga Makoto joined Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi for a mission to investigate Orochimaru’s accomplice in the Black Markets of the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers. After learning the accomplice might have extraordinary powers of observation, Makoto began considering an early debut of his own, while Itachi recalled the person who had killed his companions.

• Kakashi asked Hyuga Makoto to look after Naruto, explaining that Naruto was a Jinchūriki and that his upbringing was meant to build resilience.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Kakashi, Tenzo, Uchiha Itachi, and Makoto to investigate Orochimaru’s accomplices, including a target active in the Black Markets of the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers.
• Makoto’s system offered him a choice between defeating Orochimaru and Scorpion or helping them eliminate Anbu.
• Makoto considered using the mission to make his debut and gather people around himself without revealing his abilities.
• Makoto questioned Itachi about missing Uchiha and unrecovered bodies, prompting Hiruzen to refocus him on the mission.
• Itachi remembered the person who had killed his companions and forced him to awaken his Sharingan, suspecting that person was still watching him.

Hyuga Makoto’s team tracked Orochimaru to a Black Market trading post, where Makoto secretly prepared a disguised Shadow Clone while his teammates set up observation posts. As Orochimaru and Scorpion approached, they sensed a tail in the forest and Orochimaru attacked with Earth Release.

• Hyuga Makoto, Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi discussed why Orochimaru might have joined an organization and continued toward the Black Market trading post.
• The team reached the Land of Grass and agreed to split up to observe the barrier-protected trading post.
• After Kakashi and the others departed, Hyuga Makoto disguised himself and created a Shadow Clone, intending to test how the main storyline changed.
• Orochimaru and Scorpion argued about their conflicting ideas of immortality as they traveled toward the trading post.
• Orochimaru and Scorpion sensed the Konoha team’s tail in the forest, and Orochimaru used Earth Release: Earth Flow to attack.

Hyuga Makoto alerted Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi that Orochimaru and Scorpion were approaching, but the enemy discovered them and launched a fierce attack. As the group battled the two Akatsuki members, Makoto activated Tsukuyomi and drew power and information from the giant Tenseigan on the moon.

• Hyuga Makoto detected Orochimaru and Scorpion three kilometers away and summoned Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi.
• Orochimaru and Scorpion discovered the group and attacked with a sand wave, senbon, poisoned weapons, puppets, and snakes.
• Hyuga Makoto identified Scorpion as Sasori of the Red Sands, while Scorpion recognized Kakashi and targeted him.
• Tenzo and Uchiha Itachi fought Orochimaru as Kakashi and Hyuga Makoto faced Scorpion's attacks; Itachi held back from using his newly acquired power.
• Hyuga Makoto activated Tsukuyomi and resonated with the giant Tenseigan on the moon, receiving a surge of Chakra and information.

Hyuga Makoto and Kakashi fought Scorpion’s puppets until Scorpion unleashed the Third Kazekage puppet and its iron sand. Before Scorpion and Orochimaru could finish them, a mysterious figure appeared, seized control of the puppets, and attacked with a golden Chakra-wrapped prayer bead.

• Hyuga Makoto and Kakashi struggled against Scorpion’s puppet army as Kakashi’s Chakra ran low.
• Scorpion revealed that he had killed the Third Kazekage and turned him into a human puppet, then attacked Makoto and Kakashi with iron sand.
• Hyuga Makoto rescued Kakashi from Scorpion’s iron-sand assault, while Scorpion prepared to kill them both.
• Orochimaru confronted Uchiha Itachi and Tenzo, but Scorpion’s puppets suddenly went out of control and attacked Orochimaru.
• A mysterious figure appeared in the sky, asked why Asura’s Chakra clung to them, and hurled a golden Chakra-wrapped prayer bead that pierced Scorpion’s iron-sand wall and struck both Scorpion and Orochimaru.

Hyuga Makoto tested the amplified power of the Lunar Tenseigan against Orochimaru and Scorpion, who fought back with summons, puppets, and combined ninjutsu. As the battle escalated, Makoto began unleashing a new technique while glancing toward the sky.

• Hyuga Makoto, Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi retreated from the Mysterious Person and regrouped at a safer distance.
• Orochimaru and Scorpion were blasted through the forest, then joined forces against the airborne Hyuga Makoto.
• Hyuga Makoto used repulsive force and a Chakra Bead to pressure Orochimaru, Scorpion, and the summoned Manda.
• Orochimaru and Scorpion launched combined ninjutsu, but Hyuga Makoto remained unharmed and began forming three Chakra Beads.
• Scorpion deployed his puppets and Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon as Hyuga Makoto prepared Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Hyuga Makoto used the Tenseigan-powered Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to devastate the battlefield and defeat Orochimaru and Scorpion. After the energy was cut off, he left with a puppet head and received his quest reward, while a startled black-and-white figure emerged from the ruined ground.

• On the moon, the elders failed to identify who was controlling the Tenseigan and decided to cut off its energy, which was meant for Toneri.
• Hyuga Makoto unleashed the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, stripping Scorpion of control over his puppets and destroying Orochimaru's three Rashomon gates.
• The storm overwhelmed Orochimaru and Scorpion and erased part of the forest and a nearby town, while its shock wave knocked Kakashi and his team off their feet.
• Kakashi led Hyuga Makoto, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi back toward the village to report their important intelligence.
• Hyuga Makoto returned toward his Shadow Clone with a puppet head and received part of Kakashi's Yin Release as his completed quest reward.
• After Hyuga Makoto left, a black-and-white head emerged from the barren ground and wondered what had happened.

Black Zetsu inferred that a powerful stranger may have descended alongside Kaguya and been sealed or gravely wounded, while Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed Kakashi’s team’s mission and considered how to use their intelligence about Orochimaru and Scorpion. The chapter ended with Hyuga Makoto proposing that Konoha sell the information about Scorpion to Sunagakure.

• Black Zetsu questioned White Zetsu about the Mysterious Person and learned that Orochimaru and Scorpion had escaped the encounter.
• Black Zetsu guessed that Kaguya may have descended with another immortal being, whom Hamura and Hagoromo might have sealed, and decided to investigate and report his theory.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi heard Kakashi, Hyuga Makoto, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi report on their mission and noted their dangerous encounters with Orochimaru and Scorpion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to investigate the Mysterious Person and inform Sunagakure about Scorpion, who had killed the Third Kazekage.
• Hyuga Makoto suggested selling the intelligence about Scorpion to Sunagakure and using the payment for the village and his reward.

After defeating Orochimaru and Scorpion, Hyuga Makoto reflected on the power he had gained and headed back to give Shisui a Sharingan, only to run into Naruto. In Kirigakure, White Zetsu’s report led Uchiha Obito to investigate the mysterious attacker after he learned Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi had been present.

• Kakashi, Tenzo, and Uchiha Itachi questioned Hyuga Makoto about his fixation on money, and he explained the costs of building a family.
• Hyuga Makoto left the Anbu base pleased with the mission and considered using his new Yin Release and Tenseigan abilities to create Chakra Beads.
• Hyuga Makoto planned to return and give Shisui the Sharingan he had acquired, but Naruto confronted him on the way.
• Black Zetsu reported to Uchiha Obito that a mysterious person with Rinnegan-like abilities had defeated Orochimaru and Scorpion.
• White Zetsu revealed that Kakashi had led Konoha’s Anbu team and Uchiha Itachi had been with them, causing Uchiha Obito to fall silent and think.

Hyuga Makoto reassured Naruto that he saw him as kind and urged him to keep pursuing his dream, then went to Shisui’s hiding place to replace his eyes. After the transplant, Makoto examined the Yin Release he had obtained from Kakashi and reacted strangely to what he sensed.

• At Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto complained that Makoto had abandoned their training, and Makoto teased him while telling him not to worry about village rumors.
• Makoto told Naruto he considered him kind and said they were alike as people others viewed as monsters without families; Naruto was moved despite Makoto’s insults.
• Makoto created a Shadow Clone and went to the cave where Shisui was hiding, learning that Shisui still had his own thoughts but was completely inclined toward Makoto.
• Makoto told Shisui the Uchiha believed he had committed suicide, then replaced his eyes with Sharingan obtained outside the village and planned to relocate them.
• After Shisui adapted to his new eyes, Makoto examined the Yin Release he had gained from Kakashi and found his reaction unexpectedly strange.

Hyuga Makoto discovered that Kakashi’s Yin Release had awakened his ability to perceive spatial fluctuations, and his Tenseigan let him see space more clearly. After Shisui adapted to his new Three Tomoe eyes, Makoto urged him to train, but a strange distortion in space appeared just as they prepared to leave.

• Hyuga Makoto noticed spatial ripples after absorbing Kakashi’s Yin Release and used his Tenseigan to perceive layers of space.
• Hyuga Makoto saw that his main quest progress had risen to six percent and attributed the increase to Naruto and his discoveries about Orochimaru and Sasori.
• Uchiha Shisui adapted to his transplanted Three Tomoe eyes and said his strength had declined, though he had not yet tested himself in combat.
• Hyuga Makoto urged Shisui to try using Susanoo and train to support Makoto’s plans, while Shisui vowed to serve him and trusted Itachi to handle the clan.
• As Hyuga Makoto prepared to leave with Shisui, he spotted an uncanny distortion in space above them.

Uchiha Obito came to Konoha to assess Uchiha Itachi and investigate Uchiha Shisui’s suicide, while his unexpected concern about Kakashi drew him back toward memories of Rin. Hyuga Makoto visited Kakashi at the cemetery and gave him Icha Icha Paradise, leaving Kakashi to reflect on the value of comrades.

• Obito appeared over Konoha and told Black Zetsu and White Zetsu that he intended to observe Uchiha Itachi and investigate Shisui’s apparent suicide.
• Obito left, privately acknowledging that hearing Kakashi’s name had made him realize how long it had been since he visited Rin.
• Hyuga Makoto bought Icha Icha Paradise for Kakashi and went to the cemetery, after learning Obito had entered Konoha.
• Makoto gave Kakashi the book, placed flowers by the Memorial Stone, and said that comrades were the ones most worth cherishing.

Hyuga Makoto visited the Memorial Stone with Kakashi, then persuaded him to visit Obito's old home in the Uchiha compound. There, Makoto used his Byakugan to locate Uchiha Itachi and discovered that he was with a masked man who had a Sharingan.

• Hyuga Makoto reminded Kakashi that Obito and Rin had sacrificed themselves to protect their companions, and Kakashi shared memories of them.
• Makoto pointed out that Kakashi had never visited Obito's or Rin's old homes, so Kakashi agreed to visit Obito's preserved residence with him.
• On the way, Makoto gave Kakashi a book by Jiraiya, and Kakashi began reading it despite his embarrassment.
• Kakashi and Makoto entered the Uchiha compound, where residents watched them with hostility, and Makoto remarked on the tragedy of Uchiha Shisui's suicide.
• Makoto activated his Byakugan to find Uchiha Itachi and spotted him in the rear mountains with a man wearing an orange spiral mask and a Sharingan.