Recaps

Hyuga Shinichi, a young Main House prodigy, enrolled in the Ninja Academy after awakening his Byakugan and showing exceptional Wind Style talent. At school, he met Nawaki, who shared his dream of becoming Hokage, while Shinichi felt embarrassed about his own declaration.

• Hyuga Shinichi demonstrated his Wind Style: Vacuum Blast against Hiashi and received praise from Hiashi and Hizashi.
• Hyuga Nimitsu encouraged the boys to keep training and warned Shinichi that becoming a ninja meant risking his life.
• Hyuga Shinichi chose to attend the Ninja Academy, and his application was approved by Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Hyuga clan head.
• Hyuga Shinichi shouted that he would become the First of the Hyuga Clan outside the academy, drawing laughter from the crowd and Hiruzen's attention.
• Hyuga Shinichi met his desk mate Nawaki, who said he wanted to become Hokage, and felt awkward when Nawaki recalled Shinichi's own declaration.

Hyuga Shinichi introduced himself to his classmates, made friends with Nawaki, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro, and attended his first Ninja Academy lesson. He went home with Nawaki and learned why the Senju Clan Compound had so few residents.

• Nawaki introduced himself and said he dreamed of becoming Hokage, then Hyuga Shinichi told the class he was two years old and greeted Inuzuka Gai.
• Hyuga Shinichi chatted with Inuzuka Gai, Aburame Tomohiro, and Nawaki, and the teacher began the first lesson on chakra.
• After class, Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro went home to practice, while Hyuga Shinichi agreed to visit Nawaki.
• Hyuga Shinichi followed Nawaki to the Senju Clan Compound and learned that the First and Second Hokage had encouraged the Senju to abandon their surname and join Konoha.

Hyuga Shinichi visited Nawaki’s home, met Uzumaki Mito and Tsunade, and bonded with Nawaki over a swordsmanship manual. After they began sparring, Shinichi’s Byakugan helped him read Nawaki’s movements, and his wind-nature chakra stirred when Nawaki made him stop using it.

• Hyuga Shinichi brought dango to Nawaki’s home and introduced himself to Uzumaki Mito and Tsunade, who welcomed him warmly.
• Tsunade recognized Shinichi as the Hyuga Clan prodigy Sarutobi had mentioned and invited him to call her Big Sister Tsunade.
• After Shinichi and Nawaki left, Uzumaki Mito and Tsunade discussed Shinichi’s sincere respect and his apparent lack of fear toward Mito as a Jinchūriki.
• Nawaki showed Shinichi the Sword Technique Training Manual gathered by Tobirama, and the boys decided to become swordsmen who would protect Konoha.
• Shinichi and Nawaki sparred with wooden swords, but Nawaki accused Shinichi of cheating with his Byakugan and forbade him from using it.
• With his Byakugan restricted, Shinichi noticed his wind-nature chakra growing unusually active and began considering what it could do.

Hyuga Shinichi developed a Wind Style sword technique and impressed his friends and Mito Uzumaki with his chakra control. At the Ninja Academy, he began learning the Three Basic Techniques and mastered two of them, while his imperfect Clone Technique became a source of friendly teasing.

• Hyuga Shinichi demonstrated Wind-Riding Sword Technique: Wind Flow Coverage, coating his wooden sword in wind chakra and impressing Nawaki, Inuzuka Gai, Aburame Tomohiro, Tsunade, and Mito Uzumaki.
• Mito Uzumaki noticed how hard Shinichi had worked and smiled as he happily accepted his friends’ praise.
• Hyuga Shinichi learned that his class would begin studying the Three Basic Techniques and considered how the techniques compared with the Byakugan and his plans for a Wind Style movement technique.
• Hyuga Shinichi, Nawaki, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro discussed the upcoming lessons and the Inuzuka clan’s mimicry techniques.
• After several days of practice, Hyuga Shinichi mastered the Transformation Technique and the Substitution Technique, but struggled with the Clone Technique and was teased by his friends.

Hyuga Shinichi used Taiji Fist and Taiji Sword to guide his Wind Release chakra, drawing the attention of the Hyuga clan. The clan leaders and elders saw the techniques as a promising new combat path and summoned him to a meeting.

• Hyuga Shinichi practiced Taiji Fist while guiding his chakra with the movements, and clan members noticed the Wind Release chakra surrounding him.
• Hyuga Shinichi practiced Taiji Sword, concentrated his chakra into a wooden sword, and shattered its tip with a thrust.
• Hyuga Shinichi discovered that Hyuga clan members had watched him, and he told them his unusual Gentle Fist movements had come to him naturally.
• Hyuga Nimitsu and the elders brought Hyuga Shinichi to a meeting with the two clan heads, Hiashi, and Hizashi.
• The Hyuga leaders recognized that Taiji Fist could use the Byakugan and an opponent's momentum to strengthen the clan's combat abilities.

Hyuga Shinichi offered the Taiji Fist to the Hyuga Clan and asked for Chakra Metal to make a sword. The clan agreed to support his swordsmanship, and Hyuga Nikku urged him to pursue his ambitions without regrets.

• Hyuga Shinichi claimed the Taiji Fist as his creation and offered to teach it to the clan in exchange for Chakra Metal.
• Hyuga Nimitsu questioned Shinichi's plan to make a sword, but the Elders and Hyuga Nikku approved his choice to pursue swordsmanship.
• Hyuga Shinichi taught the meeting attendees every move and principle of the Taiji Fist, then returned to the lake.
• Hyuga Nikku told Shinichi to make the most of the clan's approval and follow his own path without regrets.
• Hyuga Shinichi promised to work hard and someday help the clan, and Hyuga Nikku silently acknowledged him before walking into the night.

Hyuga Shinichi trained, wandered through Konoha, and reflected on the village’s future wars and the people around him. He bought Nawaki a ninja tool pouch and considered teaming up with Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro to improve their chances of survival.

• Hyuga Shinichi and Hyuga Nikku each recalled Nikku’s talent and his role in the Branch House, while Nikku believed his older brother Hyuga Nimitsu was better suited to lead the clan.
• Hyuga Shinichi trained alone by the lake while other Hyuga clansmen practiced Taiji Fist under the elders’ guidance.
• Hyuga Shinichi ran into Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro shopping, then bought Nawaki a ninja tool pouch to make up for breaking his borrowed wooden sword.
• Hyuga Shinichi reflected on Konoha’s limited technology, the coming shinobi wars, and the risk that Nawaki and his other acquaintances might die.
• At the Hokage administration building, Hyuga Shinichi considered forming a scouting team with Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro, and thought about Orochimaru and Jiraiya’s future paths.

Hyuga Shinichi rushed into Nawaki’s house believing Mito and Nawaki were under attack, only to discover that his friends and family had prepared a surprise birthday party. Moved by his first birthday celebration, he thanked everyone and received gifts, including armor and ninja gear.

• Hyuga Shinichi entered Nawaki’s house with his Byakugan active and mistook the barrier around the living room for an enemy trap.
• Hyuga Shinichi charged into the living room with his broken wooden sword and found Mito, Nawaki, Tsunade, Gai, Tomohiro, and Black Charcoal waiting to wish him a happy birthday.
• Tsunade scolded Nawaki for the frightening surprise, and Mito and the boys apologized to Shinichi.
• Hyuga Shinichi explained that nobody had celebrated his birthday before and became tearfully grateful for the party.
• Nawaki gave Shinichi a ninja tool pouch, while Gai, Tomohiro, and Mito presented him with a sword strap, a forearm guard, and an iron breastplate.

On his third birthday, Hyuga Shinichi received gifts and the Chakra Metal he needed for a sword, but the Hyuga clan head presented him with young Branch House children to choose as his attendants. Shinichi rejected the clan’s system, revealed the overwhelming power of his Byakugan, and left to pursue a path that could change the clan.

• Tsunade and Uzumaki Mito gave Shinichi a breastplate and a jade hairpin at his birthday feast, where Nawaki, Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro also celebrated with him.
• After returning home, Shinichi received a box of Chakra Metal from Hyuga Nimitsu.
• Nimitsu introduced several three-year-old Branch House children for Shinichi to choose, and Shinichi interrupted him to condemn the system that denied them control over their futures.
• Shinichi’s Byakugan activated and unleashed a pressure that shattered fragile objects, cracked the wooden meeting room, and forced people to the floor.
• Shinichi declared that he would leave and grow strong enough to protect the clan and change its system, and Nimitsu allowed him to go.
• Hyuga Nikku watched Shinichi disappear into the night and felt his long-dormant heart begin to pound.

Hyuga Shinichi trained to improve his chakra control and pondered how to use Byakugan: Pressure, then met Uzumaki Mito and explained his wish to change the Hyuga Clan’s system. Mito challenged him to consider how the clan could remain protected after he was gone, then asked what he thought of Konoha.

• Hyuga Nimitsu and Hyuga Nikku watched the growing change among the Hyuga Clan and hoped Hyuga Shinichi could lead it.
• Hyuga Shinichi trained above Kage Rock, learned to climb by distributing chakra through his limbs, and maintained Windflow Coating around a branch.
• Hyuga Shinichi tried to recreate Byakugan: Pressure and considered whether it worked by releasing concentrated chakra from his eyes.
• An Anbu Ninja brought Hyuga Shinichi down from Kage Rock to meet Uzumaki Mito, while his three Hyuga guards remained nearby.
• Hyuga Shinichi told Uzumaki Mito that he wanted to end the clan’s unfair system by becoming strong enough to protect his clanmates.
• Uzumaki Mito asked whether Hyuga Shinichi could protect everyone after he was gone, then asked him what he thought of Konoha.

Hyuga Shinichi told Uzumaki Mito he wanted to protect Konoha, and she warned him that peace would require strength as war approached. Impressed by his resolve, she took him as her student and brought him to move into her home for training.

• Uzumaki Mito explained that another war was coming and that Shinichi needed strength to protect what he cherished.
• Uzumaki Mito offered to train Shinichi, and he happily accepted her as his teacher.
• Uzumaki Mito informed Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo that she had taken Shinichi as her student.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi mistakenly thought Shinichi admired him, while Danzo left the Hokage Office without challenging Mito.
• Uzumaki Mito took Shinichi to the Hyuga Clan compound so he could pack and move in with her.

Hyuga Shinichi prepared to leave the Hyuga Clan Compound and become Uzumaki Mito’s apprentice. After learning that his parents had made a bracelet to protect him, he realized they had always loved him and left for the Senju Clan Compound comforted by that knowledge.

• Hyuga Shinichi said goodbye to Hyuga Hiashi, Hyuga Hizashi, and the Hyuga clan members before leaving with Uzumaki Mito.
• Hyuga Nimitsu gave Hyuga Shinichi a bracelet his parents had made for his third birthday and explained its meaning.
• Hyuga Shinichi broke down in tears as he understood that his parents had loved him and never abandoned him.
• Uzumaki Mito comforted Hyuga Shinichi and assured him that he still had her, Nawaki, and others.
• Hyuga Shinichi walked toward the Senju Clan Compound wearing the bracelet and smiling as he thought about his parents’ love.

After four years of training under Uzumaki Mito, Hyuga Shinichi met Namikaze Minato, who was grieving the loss of his parents. Shinichi comforted him and offered to be his big brother.

• Uzumaki Mito brought Shinichi home as her apprentice, and Nawaki eagerly welcomed him as a friend and roommate.
• Shinichi trained with Mito and Nawaki for four years while attending school, and at seven he demonstrated his Wind-Cutting Slash with the Listen-to-Wind Sword.
• Namikaze Minato approached Shinichi after watching his sword technique and introduced himself.
• Minato told Shinichi that bandits led by a rogue ninja had killed his parents and the caravan guards, leaving him an orphan.
• Shinichi shared that he had also lost his parents, comforted Minato, and invited him to call him his big brother.

Hyuga Shinichi comforted Namikaze Minato and welcomed him as a little brother, then took him to Maruda’s ramen cart to celebrate. After Minato and Shinichi enjoyed the meal, Maruda learned that Teuchi had failed his Genin exam and encouraged him to keep trying.

• Namikaze Minato cried with relief when Hyuga Shinichi offered to treat him as family, and the two agreed to call each other brothers.
• Hyuga Shinichi took Minato to Maruda’s ramen cart and ordered two Deluxe Tonkotsu Ramen bowls.
• Maruda told Shinichi that Teuchi wanted to become a ninja instead of inheriting the ramen craft, and Teuchi arrived to help at the cart.
• Minato and Shinichi enthusiastically ate the ramen, with Shinichi finishing the food Minato could not manage.
• After Shinichi and Minato left, Maruda asked Teuchi about his Genin exam, and Teuchi admitted that he had failed.

Hyuga Shinichi returned from an A-rank mission, visited Uzumaki Mito, and prepared to leave on an escort mission with his friends. At Konoha’s gates, he, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro officially formed their team, the Eye-Nose-Ear Squad.

• Teuchi accepted that he could not become a ninja and told Maruda he wanted to become a ramen chef.
• Hyuga Shinichi said goodbye to Namikaze Minato and returned home to visit Uzumaki Mito.
• Shinichi told Mito that his Yin Seal was nearly complete and that he was leaving for the Land of Iron with Gai and Tomohiro.
• At Konoha’s gates, Shinichi reunited with Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro before their escort mission.
• Shinichi, Gai, Tomohiro, and Black Charcoal joined hands and declared the Eye-Nose-Ear Squad formed.

Hyuga Shinichi formed the Eye-Nose-Ear Team with Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro, combining their sensory abilities into a new intelligence squad. During their escort mission to the Land of Iron, the team ambushed and defeated a band of rogue samurai.

• Hyuga Shinichi explained how his Byakugan, Gai and Black Charcoal’s keen noses, and Tomohiro’s Sound-Stealing Bugs inspired the team’s name.
• The Inuzuka and Aburame clans and Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi supported the squad, and Shinichi, Gai, and Tomohiro began escorting a merchant caravan to the Land of Iron.
• At the border, the Eye-Nose-Ear Team confronted rogue samurai who had followed the caravan, and Shinichi assigned Gai and Tomohiro to fight the enemies on either side.
• Shinichi killed or incapacitated several samurai with his Wind Style and sword, while Gai and Black Charcoal attacked with Gatsuga and Tomohiro sent his insects and Earth Centipede against the bandits.
• The team defeated the rogue samurai; Shinichi captured several survivors, Gai left some enemies badly injured, and Tomohiro’s opponents all died.

Hyuga Shinichi and Shanxi traveled into the Land of Iron, where Shinichi advised Shanxi on expanding his business and met the young Mifune. While exploring the trading area, Shinichi bargained for two electric fans to take home to his grandmother.

• Shanxi had his men load the captured samurai into the wagons, and he and Hyuga Shinichi agreed to keep traveling toward the Land of Iron.
• During a snowy stop, Hyuga Shinichi suggested vouchers and a department store to help Shanxi grow his business, then warned that worsening border tensions could make expansion dangerous.
• At a town in the Land of Iron, Hyuga Shinichi met the young Mifune, who escorted the group to collect the bounty for the captured samurai.
• Hyuga Shinichi explored the trading area and bought two electric fans for the price of one after bargaining with a merchant.

Hyuga Shinichi returned to Konoha with his companions, bought electric fans, and reunited with Minato and his classmates over ramen. After agreeing to train Minato the next morning, Shinichi planned to prepare snacks for Tsunade, who was due back from a mission.

• Hyuga Shinichi and his companions bought the last two electric fans in the Land of Iron, then returned safely to Konoha and collected their mission pay.
• At Uncle Maruda's ramen cart, Shinichi and his companions met Namikaze Minato and his classmates Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza, and Shinichi treated them to ramen.
• Minato asked Shinichi to train him the next morning, and Shinichi agreed to meet him by the waterfall.
• After learning Tsunade was expected home that evening, Shinichi decided to buy groceries and prepare snacks for her.

Hyuga Shinichi met Hatake Sakumo and Inuzuka Oto at the market, then returned home to find Tsunade, Nawaki, Dan Katō, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru gathered for drinks. He teased Tsunade and Dan about their relationship, collected a red envelope, and went to prepare dinner.

• Hyuga Shinichi bought ingredients for dinner and ran into Hatake Sakumo and Inuzuka Oto, who were out together on a date.
• Hyuga Shinichi wondered about Kakashi's family and resolved to protect people he knew when the war came.
• Hyuga Shinichi arrived home and learned that Tsunade's boyfriend, Dan Katō, along with Jiraiya and Orochimaru, had come over.
• Jiraiya asked Hyuga Shinichi about his possible appointment as a Special Jonin, and Shinichi modestly downplayed his ability.
• Hyuga Shinichi teased Tsunade and Dan Katō by calling Dan his brother-in-law, prompting Tsunade to punch him and the others to laugh.
• Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki asked Dan Katō for red envelopes, and Shinichi went to prepare the duck.

Hyuga Shinichi developed a Wind Release blade technique while preparing dinner and promised to introduce Jiraiya to a talented student, Namikaze Minato. The next morning, Shinichi's Yin Seal activated, and he prepared to test another technique for Uzumaki Mito and Jiraiya.

• Hyuga Shinichi tested Wind Release: Wind-Cutting Hand Blade on a duck, then abandoned the unstable technique and prepared dinner with Jiraiya.
• Hyuga Shinichi told Jiraiya about Namikaze Minato, and Jiraiya agreed to meet the talented boy.
• Hyuga Shinichi and Jiraiya served a lavish dinner, and the guests drank until most of them were tipsy and stayed overnight at the Senju Clan Compound.
• Jiraiya watched Hyuga Shinichi practice swordsmanship the next morning and heard Uzumaki Mito lament that Shinichi had not learned her Sealing Jutsu.
• Hyuga Shinichi's Yin Seal formed on his forehead, and he told Uzumaki Mito that it had finally activated.
• Uzumaki Mito told Hyuga Shinichi to try another technique, and he began forming hand seals as chakra gathered around his eyes.

Hyuga Shinichi unleashed a new Byakugan pressure technique that drained his chakra, then encountered Hamura Otsutsuki in a dream after resting. Hamura gave him a mysterious power that began transforming his Byakugan.

• Hyuga Shinichi activated a Byakugan pressure ability, exhausted his chakra, and was examined by Tsunade.
• Hyuga Shinichi explained that the ability had burst out uncontrollably, and Uzumaki Mito theorized it might work like Sharingan awakening.
• Hyuga Shinichi asked Nawaki to tell Namikaze Minato he would visit in the afternoon and invited Jiraiya to meet Minato.
• Hyuga Shinichi fell asleep and met Hamura Otsutsuki, who said his Byakugan was nearly perfect but not fully mastered.
• Hamura Otsutsuki sent a sphere of light into Hyuga Shinichi, and Shinichi felt his Byakugan begin to change.

Hyuga Shinichi woke after receiving Hamura Otsutsuki's Yin-Yang Chakra, which began transforming his body and improving his eyesight. Recovered and back with his friends, he planned to spar with Nawaki and train Namikaze Minato while postponing his Sealing Jutsu practice.

• Hamura Otsutsuki told Hyuga Shinichi that the high-purity Byakugan would merge with his body, and Shinichi returned from their encounter to his mental space.
• Hyuga Shinichi woke in Jiraiya's care, where Namikaze Minato welcomed him and gave him a warm towel.
• Hyuga Shinichi said he had recovered and challenged Nawaki to a fight that afternoon.
• Hyuga Shinichi asked Uzumaki Mito to postpone their Sealing Jutsu practice so he could spar with Nawaki and train Namikaze Minato, and Mito agreed.
• Uzumaki Mito met Namikaze Minato, while Jiraiya protested that he was his student.
• Hyuga Shinichi prepared lunch, and everyone gathered to eat together.

Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki fought at the waterfall, trading Taijutsu and ninjutsu before escalating to their signature techniques. Nawaki’s Mud Swamp Thousand Hands overwhelmed Shinichi after his Sword-Counter Wind Barrier ran out, leaving him trapped as muddy hands closed in.

• Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki began their spar, and Shinichi outclassed Nawaki in Taijutsu before knocking him back with Wind Style: Great Breakthrough.
• Nawaki blocked Shinichi’s Vacuum Sphere with Water Formation Wall, then used Rock Pillar Spear to force Shinichi to retreat.
• Hyuga Shinichi activated his Byakugan and Wind-Riding Sword Technique: Sword-Counter Wind Barrier, then charged at Nawaki with Wind Step.
• Nawaki unveiled Water and Earth Release Combination Ninjutsu: Mud Swamp Thousand Hands, raising countless muddy arms to attack Shinichi.
• Hyuga Shinichi’s wind barrier ran out of chakra, and Nawaki’s muddy hands seized his legs and began swallowing him.

Hyuga Shinichi defeated Nawaki in a fierce sparring match, and the two sealed their friendship as rivals. Afterward, Shinichi introduced Namikaze Minato to Jiraiya, who accepted Minato as his disciple.

• Nawaki’s attack caught Shinichi off guard, but Shinichi used Heaven-Spin Sword Wind to clear the mud hands and countered Nawaki’s Great Waterfall Technique with Wind-Cutting Slash.
• Shinichi used Wind-Stepping Flash to reach Nawaki and hold his sword to Nawaki’s throat, prompting Nawaki to admit defeat.
• Shinichi acknowledged Nawaki as his rival, and the two joined their fingers in the Seal of Reconciliation.
• Jiraiya praised Shinichi and Nawaki, while Minato returned the Listen-to-Wind Sword to Shinichi and said he wanted to become a ninja like him.
• Shinichi introduced Minato as a potential disciple, and Jiraiya accepted Minato as his student.

Namikaze Minato demonstrated his basic techniques and revealed that he naturally had Wind, Lightning, and Fire chakra natures. Hyuga Shinichi proposed that Minato might develop a Kekkei Genkai by combining chakra natures, and Minato agreed to try after first practicing combination ninjutsu.

• Namikaze Minato performed the Clone, Transformation, and Substitution Techniques, impressing Jiraiya and reminding Hyuga Shinichi of his own past trouble with cloning.
• Hyuga Shinichi gave Minato Chakra Induction Paper, which revealed his Wind, Lightning, and Fire chakra natures.
• Jiraiya began teaching Minato ninjutsu suited to his chakra natures, but no one present knew how to teach Lightning Style.
• Hyuga Shinichi suggested that Minato might fuse chakra natures to develop a Kekkei Genkai, while Jiraiya warned that a failed attempt could cause fatal injuries.
• Jiraiya proposed that Minato first try combination ninjutsu like Nawaki, and Minato agreed, saying he trusted Hyuga Shinichi to keep him safe.