Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kei and Imai Kenta fought the Otsutsuki Ninja, using the enemies’ poor combat experience to gain the upper hand. Kei killed Otsutsuki Haruki, while Kenta faced the last Otsutsuki fighter, who launched a powerful Air Palm attack.

• Uchiha Kei detonated an Explosive Tag, killing four Otsutsuki Ninja and badly injuring three more.
• Otsutsuki Haruki attacked Kei with Yang Release: Thirty-Two Palms, but Kei used his Dojutsu to slow him and pierced his heart with Qieyu.
• Imai Kenta burned the enemy puppets with Fire Style and cut down several Otsutsuki Ninja, leaving only a middle-aged man standing.
• The middle-aged Otsutsuki dismissed Kenta’s seed-based technique, so Kenta countered with Wood Style vines and a Tree World Wall.
• The middle-aged Otsutsuki broke through Kenta’s wooden shield and prepared Yang Release: Air Palm Fifth Form as Kenta kicked toward him.

Imai Kenta survived the middle-aged Otsutsuki’s Air Palm and countered with Wood Style, while Hyuga Aya activated Sage Mode and fought through the puppet horde to confront the Otsutsuki clan. She defeated their elder and condemned the group as unworthy of the Byakugan.

• The middle-aged Otsutsuki used Air Palm against Imai Kenta, but Kenta reappeared unharmed and prepared Wood Style: Tree Binding Eternal Burial.
• Hyuga Aya activated Sage Mode, broke through the puppet horde with her Gentle Fist, and reached the Otsutsuki controllers.
• The Otsutsuki elder identified Aya as a descendant of those who left the moon and offered her a place in the clan, but she introduced herself as Hyuga Aya and attacked.
• Aya evaded the Otsutsuki’s poorly coordinated assault, killed one with a palm strike, and returned to fight the elder.
• Aya switched from Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms to Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, struck the elder’s chest, and shattered his internal organs.
• Aya faced the remaining Otsutsuki and told them they did not deserve the Byakugan.

Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta defeated the Otsutsuki advance force and confronted Otsutsuki Masaya and his elites. After Kei revealed his connection to Indra and clashed with Masaya, the Otsutsuki recognized the chakra gathering around him as Susanoo, a technique said to destroy the world.

• Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta discussed defeating the moon-dwelling Otsutsuki and decided to seal their bodies for study.
• Uchiha Kei led Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta deeper into the settlement, where Otsutsuki Masaya and Otsutsuki Toru waited with their elite fighters.
• Otsutsuki Masaya questioned the intruders, and Uchiha Kei introduced himself as a descendant of Indra and explained the origins of the Uchiha and Senju names.
• Otsutsuki Masaya attacked Uchiha Kei with Air Palm, and Kei countered with Storm Cutter, sending destructive chakra ripples across the battlefield.
• Otsutsuki Masaya recognized the chakra gathering around Uchiha Kei and identified it as Susanoo, a technique his ancestors had called world-destroying.

Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya fought Otsutsuki Masaya’s forces on the moon, where Imai’s Wood Style and Kei’s flames devastated their attackers. After Masaya’s Yang Release shattered Kei’s Susanoo, Kei recognized the power the Otsutsuki were using.

• Otsutsuki Masaya ordered his clansmen to attack Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya from all sides.
• Imai Kenta unleashed Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, trapping and draining several Otsutsuki clansmen with its vines.
• Otsutsuki Masaya assigned Otsutsuki Toru to fight Imai and Aya while he confronted Kei, and both leaders prepared their full power.
• Uchiha Kei set Imai’s advancing Wood Style ablaze with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, burning many Otsutsuki attackers.
• Otsutsuki Masaya used Yang Release: Imperial Sky to shatter the flaming trees and break Kei’s Susanoo, splitting the floating island in two.
• Uchiha Kei recognized that Masaya’s power was Yang Release.

Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya battled Otsutsuki Masaya and the lunar clan, using powerful flames and Wood Style to kill many of their opponents. Masaya raised a barrier to protect the survivors and ordered Otsutsuki Yosuke to lead them toward the moon’s core while he and Otsutsuki Toru stayed behind.

• Uchiha Kei dodged Otsutsuki Masaya’s attack and killed an Otsutsuki ninja with black Chakra that ignited into flames.
• Uchiha Kei drew the Otsutsuki clan members toward Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya, then unleashed Fire Style and Amaterasu as Kenta’s Wood Style fed the blaze.
• Hyuga Aya attacked the Otsutsuki clan members with Gentle Fist while the trio’s combined assault killed many and left the survivors with little room to escape.
• Otsutsuki Masaya used Yang Release: Eight Trigrams Guard to stop the flames and shield the remaining clan members.
• Otsutsuki Masaya ordered Otsutsuki Toru to lead the clan toward the moon’s core, while Otsutsuki Yosuke agreed to guide them and Masaya and Toru prepared to hold off the trio.

Orochimaru escaped using Izanagi but suffered severe mental strain, while Uchiha Kei confronted Otsutsuki Masaya in the moon’s core region. Their battle escalated as Uchiha Kei unleashed his Complete Body Susanoo and Otsutsuki Masaya answered with a powerful Yang Release technique.

• Orochimaru used Izanagi with a Three Tomoe Sharingan to escape, then rested as its effects worsened his already poor condition.
• Orochimaru learned from his snake that Uchiha Kei had defeated another group and decided to hide rather than join the fighting.
• Uchiha Kei’s Susanoo shattered the Eight Trigrams barrier, but Otsutsuki Masaya restored it with a burst of white Chakra and destroyed the Susanoo in their clash.
• Otsutsuki Masaya rushed Uchiha Kei and broke apart his newly restored Susanoo, while Uchiha Kei retreated and prepared to fight at full strength.
• Uchiha Kei formed his nearly two-hundred-meter Complete Body Susanoo and attacked Otsutsuki Masaya with a sword slash infused with the Flame of Amaterasu.
• Otsutsuki Masaya rose into the air and countered with Yang Release, Air Palm: Twenty Forms.

Minato learned that the moon was glowing unnaturally and that Kei might be facing Byakugan-wielding enemies in the Land of Fire. On the moon, Kei’s clash with Otsutsuki Masaya escalated, and Kei prepared to use all his Dojutsu Power against a regenerating stone colossus.

• Naruto and Kushina asked Minato why Kei, Kenta, and Aya had been away, and Minato said they were on a confidential mission.
• Kakashi told Minato that the moon had grown as bright as daylight and that fragments of rock had flown away as meteors.
• Kakashi privately warned Minato that Kei might encounter Byakugan enemies in the Land of Fire, and Minato suspected the Hyuga were involved.
• Kei’s Susanoo clashed with Masaya’s staff, destroying the floating island beneath them and stirring the Tailed Beast Chakra within the Susanoo.
• Masaya summoned a giant stone statue that caught Kei’s sword, blasted the area, and knocked Kei’s Susanoo away.
• The stone statue regenerated after crumbling to dust, and Kei decided he might have to exhaust all of his Dojutsu Power.

Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta were blasted into the moon’s core, where Otsutsuki Toru tried to recruit Aya by claiming his clan could remove her Caged Bird. Aya pretended to accept, then joined forces with Kenta to ambush and kill Toru, declaring she would win her freedom with her companions rather than rely on the Otsutsuki.

• Otsutsuki Yosuke reassured the blind Otsutsuki Toneri that the intruders were only a minor threat, though he feared for the clan’s survival.
• Hyuga Aya, Imai Kenta, and Otsutsuki Toru crashed into the moon’s core, where Aya saw the mass grave left by the Otsutsuki clan’s battles.
• Otsutsuki Toru offered to remove Aya’s Caged Bird if she joined the Otsutsuki, and Aya acted as if she would accept.
• Imai Kenta attacked Aya, but she blocked his strike and fought him while Otsutsuki Toru watched.
• Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta abruptly turned on Otsutsuki Toru, striking him through the chest with a Sage Mode palm and a Ninja Sword.
• Hyuga Aya told the dying Toru that she would claim her freedom in her own way, with the help of her friends and lover.

Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya tricked Otsutsuki Toru and set out to find Orochimaru and the Otsutsuki library while staying ready to support Uchiha Kei. Kei battled Otsutsuki Masaya’s Tenseigan Chakra Mode, survived a devastating attack, and identified the hidden Tenseigan as his next target.

• Imai Kenta handed Hyuga Aya the seed she had secretly planted behind Otsutsuki Toru before their surprise attack left Toru kneeling.
• Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta agreed to search for Orochimaru and the Otsutsuki library while remaining prepared to help Uchiha Kei.
• Uchiha Kei and Otsutsuki Masaya fought across the moon as their attacks destroyed floating islands and damaged the lunar shell.
• Otsutsuki Masaya activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, repelled Susanoo, and prepared a devastating Air Palm Sixtieth Form.
• Uchiha Kei dodged the attack for a full minute, endured severe damage to Susanoo, and spotted the location of the hidden Tenseigan.

Uchiha Kei flew toward the Giant Tenseigan to sever Otsutsuki Masaya’s connection to it, but Masaya reached the castle first and unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Trapped in the beam’s path, Kei countered with his Secret Technique: Time Blade, and the two attacks collided.

• Uchiha Kei recovered his Susanoo and flew toward the Giant Tenseigan while Otsutsuki Masaya struggled to pursue him.
• Otsutsuki Masaya used Yin-Yang Release: Ame-no-Iwatowake to reach the castle where his clan members and the Giant Tenseigan were located.
• Otsutsuki Masaya drew power from the Giant Tenseigan and unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion toward Uchiha Kei.
• Uchiha Kei was pinned by the beam’s force, gathered his full Chakra, and swung his Susanoo’s blade with Secret Technique: Time Blade.
• Uchiha Kei’s black blade met the golden beam.

Uchiha Kei’s clash with Otsutsuki Masaya’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion shattered the artificial moon, leaving Kei adrift and exhausted among its wreckage. In Konoha, Minato and others witnessed the moon’s destruction trigger disasters across the world, then saw a blue radiance appear in the sky.

• Imai Kenta protected himself and Hyuga Aya with Wood Style as the collision of the two powers ravaged their bodies and drained Chakra from the Otsutsuki clansmen.
• Uchiha Kei forced his right eye to restore his third-stage Susanoo, then watched its black radiance slow Otsutsuki Masaya’s golden attack as both powers spread across the moon.
• The two powers overwhelmed the moon, which shattered and left Uchiha Kei, the Otsutsuki, and countless bones floating in a vacuum; Kei spotted a dried skeleton but lacked the strength to reach it.
• Kakashi told Namikaze Minato that the moon was shaking and enormous meteors were breaking away, then Kushina and Naruto watched the moon explode.
• The moon’s destruction unleashed earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and other disasters across the lands before a blue radiance appeared in the sky and the world seemed to freeze.

Uchiha Kei encountered Otsutsuki Hamura after the moon’s destruction left him suspended between life and death. Hamura revealed that he and Otsutsuki Hagoromo had watched Kei for years, and Kei explained how his genetic research had helped him and others approach their ancestral origins.

• As Uchiha Kei drifted helplessly in space, Otsutsuki Hamura stopped time and appeared beside the giant Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Kei questioned whether he was alive or dead and learned that Hamura knew about his unusual soul and his fear of dying.
• Otsutsuki Hamura showed Uchiha Kei visions of his past battles and identified himself as Otsutsuki Hagoromo’s younger brother.
• Otsutsuki Hamura asked about Uchiha Kei’s progress toward their power, and Kei explained his research into genes, ancestral origins, and records from the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans.
• Otsutsuki Hamura asked Uchiha Kei what genes were.

Uchiha Kei learned from Otsutsuki Hagoromo that he had survived the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and that his Dojutsu held an incomplete, higher-level power. Hagoromo restored Kei’s strength, urged him to care for those around him and learn Sage Mode, then revived the Otsutsuki descendants as the chapter ended with Kei using Divine: Planetary Devastation.

• Uchiha Kei questioned Otsutsuki Hagoromo about his survival and learned that his Dojutsu surpassed ordinary Mangekyō powers but remained incomplete.
• Uchiha Kei realized his eyes might conceal a higher form of power, while Hagoromo explained that Kei’s uncontrolled power had created their surroundings.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo gave Kei a power belonging to “us,” restoring and increasing his bodily strength, Chakra, and Dojutsu Power.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo advised Kei to care for the people around him and learn Sage Mode before vanishing beside the enormous Tenseigan.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo revived the dying Otsutsuki descendants and asked Kei to spare them if possible, then Kei invoked Divine: Planetary Devastation.

After the moon was restored, Minato organized relief efforts and considered how Konoha could help the devastated nations. On the moon, Uchiha Kei explained the Otsutsuki brothers’ history to Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya, leaving Aya inspired by the Byakugan’s potential.

• The moon’s fragments gathered back together, restoring it and ending the disasters across the land.
• Minato ordered Kakashi to mobilize Konoha’s forces for relief, village security, and border monitoring, then prepared to meet with the village leaders.
• Minato considered using the disaster to expand Konoha’s influence by offering aid to small countries, while planning for another lunar crisis.
• Uchiha Kei found Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya and explained that Otsutsuki Hagoromo was the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura was the Hyuga’s ancestor.
• Imai Kenta joked that the Uchiha might all be insane, and Uchiha Kei threatened to have him sent to prison.
• Hyuga Aya reflected on Hamura’s power and resolved to pursue the Byakugan’s potential.

Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta reached the moon clan’s castle, where Otsutsuki Yosuke explained the clan’s ambitions and surrendered. Kei secured access to the clan’s records and warned Yosuke not to pursue dangerous plans, while offering a chance to restore the sight of the clan members who had lost their eyes.

• Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta found Otsutsuki Masaya dead and the surviving Otsutsuki clansmen blinded at the castle.
• Otsutsuki Yosuke explained the clan’s ideals and accepted that its plans had been wrong after Otsutsuki Hamura’s warning.
• Uchiha Kei demanded that the Otsutsuki find Orochimaru and grant the trio access to their library, and Yosuke agreed in exchange for permission to live undisturbed on the moon.
• Uchiha Kei examined the Giant Tenseigan and pulled a Byakugan from it, then returned the eye to the orb.
• Uchiha Kei warned Otsutsuki Yosuke against cultivating another Tenseigan user and said the clansmen might be able to regain their sight.

Uchiha Kei considered how to control the moon and its Otsutsuki residents while investigating suspicions about alien Otsutsuki, then confronted Orochimaru over his secretive actions. The chapter ended with Kei using his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to intimidate Orochimaru and accuse him of violating their partnership.

• Uchiha Kei and Hyuga Aya discussed giving the blind Otsutsuki Hyuga eyes, while Imai Kenta suggested turning the moon into a laboratory.
• Uchiha Kei said he wanted the Otsutsuki to live normally but insisted that he control the route to the moon and the gigantic Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Kei reread his diary and wondered whether Otsutsuki Hagoromo had withdrawn because of Otsutsuki Momoshiki and Otsutsuki Urashiki.
• Orochimaru arrived badly injured after witnessing Otsutsuki Hagoromo restore the moon, and he decided to follow Uchiha Kei in hopes of researching the gods.
• Otsutsuki Yosuke told Uchiha Kei that Orochimaru's soul and body had been incompatible when the Otsutsuki captured him.
• Uchiha Kei accused Orochimaru of hiding discoveries about the Uzumaki descendants and a natural-energy user, then threatened him with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Uchiha Kei subdued Orochimaru and forced Otsutsuki Yosuke to give up the Tenseigan’s power and its techniques in exchange for helping the moon’s Otsutsuki Clan survive. Yosuke brought the offer to his people, who struggled with the trade but admitted they had little left to lose.

• Uchiha Kei paralyzed Orochimaru with Genjutsu and ordered Otsutsuki Yosuke’s people to keep him alive.
• Uchiha Kei demanded the Tenseigan’s power, the clan’s method for using it, and the route between the moon and the Ninja World, promising to help the Otsutsuki Clan endure.
• Uchiha Kei warned Otsutsuki Yosuke not to target the Hyuga Clan or expect to keep Otsutsuki Toneri’s power, and proposed rebuilding the clan in exchange for surrendering the Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Kei told Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta that he would obtain people from slave markets to help the Otsutsuki Clan reproduce, rather than use the Hyuga Clan.
• Otsutsuki Yosuke asked the gathered Otsutsuki ninja whether they would trade the Tenseigan’s power for a chance to restore their clan, and they fell silent before acknowledging their desperation.

Uchiha Kei secured an agreement with the Otsutsuki clan and spent a month studying Yin-Yang Release with Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya. After Orochimaru recovered, Kei went to confront him about the debt he owed.

• The Otsutsuki clan agreed to hand over control of the Tenseigan first, then provide the Byakugan, population, and lunar passage in stages under an agreement with Uchiha Kei.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya spent nearly a month studying Yin-Yang Release in the Otsutsuki library and training grounds.
• Uchiha Kei argued that combining Yin Release and Yang Release could yield great benefits, while he considered preparing Impure World Reincarnation as insurance against death.
• An Otsutsuki clansman told Uchiha Kei that Orochimaru had recovered, and Kei went with Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya to see him.
• Uchiha Kei told Orochimaru it was time to settle the large debt he owed, and Orochimaru acknowledged he needed to prove his value.

Uchiha Kei confronted Orochimaru about his debts and accepted the Curse Mark Orochimaru had developed from pure Sage Mode Chakra. After the mark activated on Kei’s neck, he found the pain manageable and his body adapting quickly.

• Orochimaru explained that he had found the Uzumaki Clan's orphan and developed a Curse Mark containing pure Sage Mode Chakra.
• Uchiha Kei suspected Orochimaru had hidden part of his soul in the Curse Mark, and Orochimaru admitted Kei had seen through his condition.
• Hyuga Aya questioned whether they could trust Orochimaru, while Imai Kenta noted that Kei could test the Sage Mode Chakra and the group could remove the mark afterward.
• Orochimaru gave them a scroll containing the method for removing the Curse Mark, and Uchiha Kei decided to try it.
• Uchiha Kei channeled Chakra into the mark, which spread to the back of his neck and caused intense heat and pain as his body began adapting to it.

Uchiha Kei prepared to help Hyuga Aya remove her Caged Bird seal using the Giant Tenseigan, despite the danger and uncertainty. The attempt knocked Kei, Aya, and Imai Kenta unconscious, but Aya’s seal vanished.

• Uchiha Kei learned that Orochimaru had used Izanagi to escape danger, leaving his soul unstable and his Three Tomoe Sharingan ruined.
• Uchiha Kei warned Orochimaru to prepare the remaining payment and told him not to cause trouble before returning to the surface.
• Hyuga Aya decided to attempt removing her Caged Bird seal rather than wait for the moon clan to reconstruct the original method.
• Uchiha Kei put his hand into the Giant Tenseigan and guided its Chakra toward Hyuga Aya, but the Tenseigan erupted and overwhelmed all three of them.
• Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta passed out, and the Caged Bird mark on Hyuga Aya’s forehead faded away.