Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Yuki and the Branch Family attacked the Hyuga Main Branch, while Hiashi handed over the Fission Technique and a safer cursed seal before allowing the clan’s reckoning to unfold. The chapter left the Main Branch elders being slaughtered, with Hyuga Meigoku witnessing the clan’s collapse.

• Hyuga Miyuki entered the meeting room and killed the Third Elder after the Caged Bird failed to affect her.
• Hyuga Yuki arrived with Branch Family shinobi and demanded the Fission Technique from Hiashi.
• At the front lines, Minato met Uchiha Fugaku and headed to the command room with Hane.
• Hiashi killed the Second Elder when he tried to seize the Fission Technique, then gave Yuki the scrolls and a special order to leave Konoha safely.
• Yuki’s Branch Family charged the Main Branch elders, while Hyuga Meigoku watched the massacre from a distance.

Hyuga Tokuma reported Danzo’s takeover to Hiashi’s father, who ordered Hiashi to comply, but a maid poisoned him and stole his Byakugan. Hiashi chose to take responsibility and hand leadership to Hizashi as Hyuga Yuki led Miyuki and other Branch Family members out of Konoha toward the Land of Snow.

• Hyuga Tokuma told Hiashi’s father that Danzo controlled Konoha’s forces and advised him to tell Hiashi to follow Danzo’s orders.
• After Tokuma left, the maid poisoned Hiashi’s father, waited for him to die, and removed his Byakugan.
• Hiashi told Tokuma he would stand with Danzo, take responsibility, and later resign in favor of Hizashi, with no Main Branch remaining.
• Hyuga Yuki led Hyuga Miyuki and more than twenty others, carrying their families in a storage scroll, and said they would settle in the Land of Snow.
• Miyuki agreed to go with Yuki while planning to stabilize the power in her evolved Byakugan and grow stronger.
• At Konoha’s gate, Yuki presented Hiashi’s token and said they had orders to support the battlefield, allowing the group to pass.

Tsunade left Konoha after failing to rally support against Danzo and the village’s elders, then set out with Shizune for the battlefield. At the front-line command room, Minato insisted on confronting the Tailed Beast unit, trusting Hyuga Hane and his other allies to support him.

• Konoha’s guards watched Hyuga Miyuki and her group leave, then let Tsunade exit the village without stopping her as Anbu and Root observed.
• Tsunade reconsidered her options, decided the village’s internal conflict could expose Konoha to attack, and accepted that she had to leave for now.
• Shizune apologized to Tsunade, who comforted her and admitted she had feared Danzo might use Shizune against her.
• Tsunade put away her dice, wondered whether Hyuga Hane had cheated during their earlier bet, and told Shizune they would go to the battlefield.
• Jiraiya warned Minato that the Third Mizukage might target him because of his strength, but Minato said Kakashi, Yakuwan, Hyuga Hane, and Kushina would accompany him.

Minato and Hyuga Hane discussed the war against the Mist Village and Minato’s determination to reform the Hyuga Clan. The chapter left Minato questioning whether Root was necessary as he realized Danzo likely controlled Konoha.

• Jiraiya learned that Hane had mastered the Flying Thunder God and agreed to follow Minato’s orders.
• Hane told Minato not to involve him in decisions that could provoke the Hyuga Main Family, while Minato insisted he would change the clan for his comrade.
• Hane proposed exploiting opposition in the Mist Village by spreading rumors that the Third Mizukage was under Genjutsu, and Minato agreed to keep him alive as a target.
• Minato revealed that the Third Hokage had shown him reasons to suspect Danzo controlled Konoha and asked Hane whether Root was necessary.

Hyuga Hane joined Kushina, Kakashi, and Uchiha Yakumaru on a mission to sweep away nearby Mist Village forces while Minato remained at the command center. As they discussed the war and the impossibility of lasting peace, Hane detected enemies ahead.

• Minato dismissed his worries about Danzo and stayed at the command center to lead the war effort.
• Kushina led Hyuga Hane, Kakashi, and Uchiha Yakumaru away from the command center to attack nearby Mist Village troops.
• The group traveled through a battlefield littered with blood, discarded ninja tools, and unrecovered bodies, then stopped to rest.
• Yakumaru questioned why the other villages repeatedly attacked Konoha, and Hane explained the Land of Fire's strategic and economic importance.
• Yakumaru wondered when true peace would come, while Hane reflected that power could force only temporary peace.
• Hane detected enemies one kilometer ahead.

Kushina’s squad ambushed Mist Village ninja and learned that Yagura and Terumi Mei commanded the area. When they encountered Terumi Mei’s elite team, Kushina engaged her while Hyuga Hane and the others fought the remaining Jonin.

• Hyuga Hane located four Mist Village ninja, and Kushina killed their Jonin while the squad took down two others and captured a Chunin for questioning.
• Yakumaru learned that Yagura commanded the area and that Terumi Mei was among the Mist Village’s elite Jonin.
• Hyuga Hane warned Kushina’s squad that Terumi Mei led an approaching group of six Jonin, and Kushina claimed Terumi Mei as her opponent.
• Terumi Mei recognized Kushina’s squad and fired a distress signal before using acidic mist to force Kushina to retreat.
• Hyuga Hane used Flying Thunder God to kill one of the Mist Village Jonin, while Yakumaru and Kakashi prepared to fight the others.

Kushina, Hyuga Hane, and Uchiha Yakumaru captured Terumi Mei and brought her toward Konoha, but Kirigakure forces closed in. After sending his companions and the prisoner ahead, Hyuga Hane met Yagura and asked whether the Third Mizukage was still sane.

• Kushina sealed Terumi Mei's Chakra, and Yakumaru placed her under a Genjutsu safeguard against suicide.
• Terumi Mei tried to sow discord by mentioning the Hyuga Branch Family's Caged Bird Technique, but Hane and Yakumaru rejected her provocation.
• Hane detected a large group of Kirigakure shinobi approaching and used Flying Thunder God to send Kushina, Yakumaru, and Terumi Mei away before returning to headquarters.
• Hane left a Shadow Clone behind, and Yagura confronted it about the failed ambush on the Hyuga Main Family.
• Hane asked Yagura whether the Third Mizukage was still sane, then asked what Yagura was willing to trade for what he knew.

Hyuga Hane discussed the violence passed down through the ninja system with Uchiha Yakumaru before meeting Sarutobi Hiruzen, who tested his political insight and revealed Sarutobi Masaaki’s ties to him. Hiruzen acknowledged that Masaaki’s actions had exposed him, while Hyuga Hane recognized that the intelligence file came from someone close to Konoha’s inner circle.

• Yagura returned to camp after learning that Terumi Mei was missing and might have been captured by Konoha.
• Hyuga Hane and Uchiha Yakumaru discussed Itachi’s battlefield training, and Hane argued that ninjas naturally learned to solve problems through killing.
• Hyuga Hane met Sarutobi Hiruzen, who explained that Minato wanted Hane to earn prestige and asked him to assess a file.
• Hyuga Hane identified Sarutobi Masaaki as Hiruzen’s agent and said Masaaki’s role in driving Tsunade from Konoha had exposed him.
• Hyuga Hane inferred that Masaaki had supplied the unusually detailed intelligence, and Hiruzen agreed that anyone could draw that conclusion from the file.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Hyuga Hane discussed the risks of passing the Nine-Tails between successive Jinchuriki and the political pressure Minato faced as the war neared its end. Hane argued for a new approach to Tailed Beasts and concluded that Konoha needed to win decisively, while Hiruzen approved of him as Hokage Assistant.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen explained that Minato lacked experience and needed a trusted assistant, then discussed Sarutobi Masaaki's concerns about the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen described the risks of the Nine-Tails either never accepting a successor or eventually breaking free, and worried that an accepted Jinchuriki could become uncontrollable.
• Hyuga Hane suggested treating an accepted Tailed Beast as a companion and releasing it instead of assuming the existing Jinchuriki system was best.
• Hyuga Hane explained that Danzo could exploit the war's losses and the Daimyo's demands to undermine Minato if Konoha backed down or failed to win reparations.
• Hyuga Hane argued that Konoha had enough powerful ninja to win the war decisively, and Sarutobi Hiruzen praised his suitability as Hokage Assistant.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru discussed Root, Hane’s prospects, and Hiruzen’s guilt over Hatake Sakumo’s death as Hiruzen resolved to curb the clans’ influence. Hane left the command room reflecting on the imbalance between Konoha, the Daimyo, and the Land of Fire, while Orochimaru recognized that Hane might gain substantial power through Minato’s trust.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Orochimaru that Danzo would have to step down and that Root could not remain under his control, while weighing Hane and Shikaku for Hokage Assistant.
• Orochimaru prompted Hiruzen to confront how Sakumo’s death had shaped his choices, and Hiruzen regretted not giving Sakumo the chance to become Hokage.
• Hiruzen blamed himself, Danzo, the advisors, and the clans for Sakumo’s death, then vowed to cut away the Old Clans’ influence.
• Orochimaru realized Hane had maneuvered Hiruzen into removing obstacles to Hane’s rise and wondered how much authority Hane could gain through Minato.
• Hane left the command room and considered how the Daimyo’s economic control and Konoha’s military power made the One Country, One Village system dysfunctional.