Recaps

Hyuga Shinichi persuaded the Uzumaki Village Chief to consider moving the clan to Konoha and explained that their abilities could help solve Konoha’s shortage of medical ninja. As the group sailed away, outsiders learned of the planned move and hurried to report it, while Shinichi teased Nawaki about his feelings for someone.

• Uzumaki villagers urged the Village Chief to accept Hyuga Shinichi’s proposal, and the Chief agreed to consider moving the clan after Konoha confirmed it would take them in.
• Hyuga Shinichi promised to consult Konoha’s higher-ups, and the villagers went home to prepare for a possible move.
• Jiraiya asked how Shinichi would persuade Konoha, and Shinichi said the Uzumaki Clan’s strong life force, chakra reserves, and Sealing Jutsu made them suited to become medical ninja.
• Several strangers secretly investigated Uzushio Village, learned the Uzumaki Clan might move to Konoha, and hurried away to report the news.
• On the ship to Konoha, Hyuga Shinichi teased Nawaki for staring at the Land of Whirlpools and suggested he was thinking about someone.

Hyuga Shinichi urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to relocate the Uzumaki Clan from Uzushio Village to Konoha, arguing that an approaching war would leave them vulnerable and that their abilities could strengthen Konoha’s medical training. As Sarutobi Hiruzen began to accept the proposal, an Anbu rushed into the office with an urgent report.

• Jiraiya brought Uzumaki Kushina to Konoha, where Sarutobi Hiruzen welcomed her and Uzumaki Mito comforted her with an embrace.
• Jiraiya reported on the mission and described the many unknown forces attacking the Land of Whirlpools.
• Hyuga Shinichi warned Sarutobi Hiruzen that an approaching war could leave Uzushio Village exposed and urged him to move the Uzumaki Clan to Konoha.
• Hyuga Shinichi argued that the clan’s vitality and chakra reserves could help train medical ninja and establish Tsunade’s proposed medical institution.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared ready to approve the proposal, but an Anbu rushed in with a report.

Jiraiya led a Konoha vanguard toward the Land of Whirlpools after enemy forces attacked Uzushio Village. The Uzumaki Clan had escaped to a mountain shrine, where the Village Chief prepared to defend them and hoped Konoha would arrive in time.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Jiraiya, Hyuga Shinichi, Nawaki, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro to join the coastal guards and head for the Land of Whirlpools.
• Uzumaki Mito took Uzumaki Kushina to the Senju Clan Compound while Hiruzen gathered Konoha's Jonin and High Command.
• Jiraiya left some ninja to guard the coast and led the rest toward the Land of Whirlpools as enemy observers reported Konoha's movements.
• The Uzumaki Clan hid in a mountain shrine after the Village Chief recognized the danger, while enemy forces searched the burning Uzushio Village.
• The Village Chief vowed to use the shrine's defenses and sacrifice himself if necessary to protect the clan.
• Jiraiya boarded a ship with the vanguard and set out to rescue the Uzumaki Clan, while two larger ships waited to carry them to safety.

Konoha’s support forces set out for Uzushio Village while Jiraiya’s vanguard fought through repeated attacks. Hyuga Shinichi discovered that the Uzumaki Clan was absent from the occupied village and learned they had been found in hiding, leaving him to search for a way to reach them before the attackers did.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen appointed Hatake Sakumo captain of a support mission, and Sakumo organized eleven Jonin and one hundred Chunin to travel toward the Land of Whirlpools.
• Jiraiya’s vanguard was attacked repeatedly, then used Hyuga Shinichi’s and the others’ abilities to break through a Hidden Mist ambush and continue toward Uzushio Village.
• Hyuga Shinichi scanned Uzushio Village and found it occupied by unidentified looters, with no members of the Uzumaki Clan in sight.
• Aburame Tomohiro reported that the attackers had found the Uzumaki Clan’s hiding place and were preparing to go there.
• Hyuga Shinichi decided not to return through the enemy forces to Jiraiya and spotted a secret tunnel beneath a house in the village.

Hyuga Shinichi discovered a hidden tunnel beneath the Village Chief's house and sent Nawaki through it to rally the Uzumaki Clan while the Eye-Nose-Ear Team harassed the enemy forces. At the summit, the Village Chief stayed behind and used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to hold off the attackers, continuing to reap their souls despite the jutsu's cost.

• Hyuga Shinichi found the tunnel beneath the Village Chief's house and devised a plan to draw enemy troops away from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Hyuga Shinichi sent Nawaki through the tunnel to warn the clan while he, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro attacked the enemy's rear.
• Hyuga Shinichi's team repeatedly struck the four factions' command posts, forcing them to send troops back from the assault on the summit.
• Nawaki reached the shrine and explained the plan, and the Uzumaki Clan prepared to return through the tunnel as enemy troops neared the summit.
• The Village Chief stayed behind to delay the enemy, and Nawaki sealed the tunnel entrance before leaving.
• The Village Chief used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to seize the eastern force leader's soul and continued attacking enemies reaching the summit.

Hyuga Shinichi, Inuzuka Gai, and Aburame Tomohiro fought their way out of an encirclement using a smoke-filled assault and Tomohiro’s insect trap. As they pressed their attack, a powerful enemy confronted Shinichi and declared that he would take his Byakugan.

• Hyuga Shinichi’s group was surrounded by enemy forces, so they prepared to break through while Aburame Tomohiro waited for the Earth Centipede to act.
• Hyuga Shinichi blocked the enemy’s combined ninjutsu with a Wind Wall, then used Great Breakthrough to drive black smoke through their ranks as the group attacked.
• With the Byakugan guiding their advance and the Kikaichū covering their rear, the group broke through the weak right flank and escaped the encirclement.
• Aburame Tomohiro commanded the Earth Centipede to smash its underground supports, unleashing Kikaichū that devoured many enemies in the collapsing ground.
• Hyuga Shinichi led the group back into the remaining enemy ranks, but a powerful attacker arrived, clashed with Shinichi, and vowed to take his Byakugan.

Hyuga Shinichi fought off the attackers while learning that the Uzumaki Clan had escaped, then used the chakra stored in his Yin Seal to create an opening for his group to break through. As Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro charged ahead, they turned back when they realized someone was missing.

• Hyuga Shinichi and Ao Qing wounded an ambusher who coveted his Byakugan, and Shinichi killed him with Wind Style: Vacuum Blast.
• Hyuga Shinichi fought through more attackers and regrouped with Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro as the Uzumaki Clan's safe evacuation became clear.
• Hyuga Shinichi warned his allies that his next technique would leave them dizzy, then released the chakra stored in his Yin Seal to knock out the enemies around them.
• Inuzuka Gai, Aburame Tomohiro, and the others charged through the opening, then turned back after noticing someone was missing.

Hyuga Shinichi collapsed after using a chakra-draining Byakugan technique, and Tsunade treated him as reinforcements arrived to defeat the enemy force. The Uzumaki Clan found their Village Chief dead at the shrine, his Death God Mask crumbling away when they touched it.

• Hyuga Shinichi collapsed with severe pain and bleeding, but Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro returned to protect him rather than retreat.
• Hatake Sakumo and Jiraiya arrived to block the enemies' attack, followed by Tsunade and Dan Katō.
• Tsunade treated Hyuga Shinichi and determined that he had fainted from chakra depletion and eye strain after using his special Byakugan technique.
• Konoha Ninja and members of the Uzumaki Clan joined the battle, routing the remaining enemies.
• The Uzumaki Clan found their Village Chief dead at the shrine with a Sealing Jutsu pattern on his abdomen, and the Death God Mask crumbled to dust when touched.

Hyuga Shinichi woke in the Senju Clan Compound after being rescued and learned that his friends were safe and the Uzumaki Clan had joined Konoha. Uzumaki Kushina met Namikaze Minato, rejected his offer of friendship, then turned back after remembering her parents’ advice.

• Hyuga Shinichi woke with his eyes bandaged, and Namikaze Minato told him that Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro were recovering safely.
• Namikaze Minato told Hyuga Shinichi that Sarutobi Hiruzen had announced the Uzumaki Clan’s entry into Konoha and that Uzumaki Mito was leading them.
• Uzumaki Kushina entered the room and urged Hyuga Shinichi to keep resting.
• Namikaze Minato introduced himself to Uzumaki Kushina and asked if he could be her friend, but she refused and left.
• Uzumaki Kushina remembered her parents’ advice about making trusted friends and turned back.

Minato left Shinichi’s room after Kushina introduced herself, and Shinichi resolved to protect Minato and Kushina from their tragic future. Tsunade, Nawaki, and Mito then visited Shinichi, who asked Tsunade what had happened to his eyes.

• Minato told Shinichi that Kushina had been meant to look after him and prepared to leave.
• Kushina stepped into the doorway, introduced herself to Minato as Uzumaki Kushina, and ran off; Minato happily promised to get along with her.
• Shinichi reflected on Minato and Kushina’s deaths and resolved to prevent their family from suffering the same fate.
• Nawaki rushed into Shinichi’s room, and Tsunade scolded him for being loud before Mito ordered them both to quiet down.
• Shinichi pretended to be in pain to reassure himself that Mito would not punish him, then told Nawaki he was feeling all right.
• Shinichi asked Tsunade about his eyes, and she explained that he had overused them and might have gone blind without timely treatment.

Hyuga Shinichi reassured Uzumaki Mito that he did not regret risking his life to save the Uzumaki Clan, then proposed training its members as medical ninja and establishing a hospital in Konoha. The plan could help the clan earn the village’s acceptance while expanding medical care.

• Tsunade told Hyuga Shinichi he would recover, and Uzumaki Kushina promised to learn how to care for him.
• Uzumaki Mito worried that Shinichi’s dangerous plan had nearly cost him his life, and he explained that he had acted to save her clan and spare her grief.
• Uzumaki Mito comforted Shinichi and told him she wanted him to live as much as she wanted to protect the Uzumaki Clan.
• Hyuga Shinichi told Tsunade that the Uzumaki Clan’s vitality and chakra made its members well suited to becoming medical ninja.
• Hyuga Shinichi proposed that the Uzumaki Clan staff and manage a hospital, giving Konoha better medical care and helping the clan gain the villagers’ acceptance.
• Uzumaki Mito recognized that the hospital plan could give her clan a secure place in Konoha while benefiting the village’s existing clinics.

Tsunade and Uzumaki Mito began training the Uzumaki Clan in medical ninjutsu, while Shinichi recovered in the hospital. As the clan members integrated into Konoha and gained the villagers’ trust, Mito urged Tsunade to wait before opening a hospital until the trainees were ready.

• Tsunade proposed creating a hospital and medical training center, and Mito agreed to help the Uzumaki Clan learn medicine.
• After eating, Shinichi fell asleep and dreamed that he spent his life looking after the children of Minato, Kushina, Naruto, and Hinata.
• Mito and Tsunade taught the Uzumaki Clan medical skills, and Hiruzen supported their training by assigning retired medical ninjas to assist.
• More than a dozen Uzumaki Clan members learned the Mystical Palm Technique in under half a month, but Mito warned Tsunade not to open a hospital before they were sufficiently trained.
• Former Uzumaki patrol members passed Konoha’s ninja exams, earned forehead protectors, and formed friendships with Konoha ninjas during missions.

Uzumaki Mito reflected on the Uzumaki Clan settling into Konoha, Nawaki’s growing closeness with Uzumaki Michiko, and Uzumaki Kushina’s fear of becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. She brought Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi to a familiar tower and hinted that she would show them something there.

• Uzumaki Mito heard from Hyuga Shinichi that Nawaki and Uzumaki Michiko appeared to have mutual feelings, and she hoped they would marry someday.
• Uzumaki Kushina learned she would become the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and grew more dependent on Uzumaki Mito.
• Uzumaki Mito told Kushina that a Jinchuriki could still find happiness through love, but that love had to be pursued rather than simply awaited.
• Uzumaki Mito took Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi through Konoha, where they saw Uzumaki Clan members mixing happily with villagers.
• Uzumaki Mito brought them to the tower where she had taken Hyuga Shinichi as her student and remarked that she had not visited in a long time.

Uzumaki Mito showed Uzumaki Kushina the tower’s seals and explained the difference between a whirlpool and a rising spiral as they climbed to the rooftop. Looking out at Senju Hashirama’s Kage Rock, Kushina took Mito’s words about finding love and seeing a different future to heart.

• Uzumaki Mito explained how the Uzumaki Clan’s power had drawn hostility and how the tower’s crest strengthened a Jinchūriki’s seal.
• Uzumaki Kushina worried that she would be kept in the tower as the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and Uzumaki Mito comforted her.
• Uzumaki Mito led Uzumaki Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi up the spiral staircase, explaining how its rising path differed from a flat whirlpool.
• At the tower’s rooftop, Uzumaki Mito showed Kushina the view of Senju Hashirama’s Kage Rock and recalled coming there when she was sad.
• Uzumaki Mito urged Uzumaki Kushina to keep climbing toward love and a different view of life, and Kushina promised she would.

Hyuga Shinichi brought Uzumaki Kushina to her first day at the Ninja Academy, where his legendary reputation drew the class’s attention. Kushina entered Namikaze Minato’s class and stood ready to be introduced.

• Uzumaki Mito told Hyuga Shinichi that he was the same and reflected that she hoped to watch him grow up.
• Hyuga Shinichi escorted Uzumaki Kushina to her assigned class, where the students recognized him as an Academy prodigy.
• Hyuga Shinichi tried to calm Kushina by suggesting she imagine her classmates as tomatoes, but she laughed after picturing their heads as bowls of ramen.
• The teacher welcomed Kushina, and she entered the classroom after Hyuga Shinichi encouraged her.
• Uzumaki Kushina recognized Namikaze Minato, remembered running away from him before, and blushed as the teacher began introducing her.

Uzumaki Kushina introduced herself to her class, announced her dream of becoming Konoha’s first female Hokage, and settled into school with encouragement from Hyuga Shinichi and Namikaze Minato. Shinichi left the Academy after telling Kushina to stand up for herself if anyone bullied her.

• Uzumaki Kushina introduced herself, but her classmates focused on her red hair and made her lower her head.
• Hyuga Shinichi used his Byakugan to pressure the students into silence, then encouraged Kushina with a gentle smile.
• Uzumaki Kushina declared that she wanted to become Konoha’s first female Hokage, and Namikaze Minato shared his own Hokage dream.
• The teacher seated Kushina in front of Minato, and Shinichi asked Minato to look after her during class.
• Shinichi left the Ninja Academy after telling Kushina to hit back if anyone picked on her and promising to handle any trouble.

Uzumaki Kushina fought back against classmates who mocked her red hair and dream of becoming Hokage, earning the nickname “Bloody Habanero.” Meanwhile, Hyuga Shinichi found himself with nothing to do because his friends had gone on a mission and Tsunade had ordered him to rest.

• Uzumaki Kushina’s classmates called her Tomato and mocked her ambition while Namikaze Minato watched from nearby.
• When a student grabbed her hair, Uzumaki Kushina seized his hand, threw the surrounding students, and beat the green-clad student who had led the teasing.
• Namikaze Minato watched Uzumaki Kushina defend herself, while she mistook his smile for mockery and shouted at him.
• Uzumaki Kushina beat up the classmates who had mocked her and gained the nickname “Bloody Habanero.”
• Hyuga Shinichi learned that Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro had recovered enough to go on a mission, but he had to rest as Tsunade had instructed, leaving him with nowhere to go.

Hyuga Shinichi found Might Duy collapsed after an intense workout and discovered the enormous weights he was training with. After sealing the weights into a scroll, Shinichi carried Duy toward Uncle Maruda’s ramen cart.

• Hyuga Shinichi spotted a green-clad man collapse and recognized him as Might Guy’s father, Might Duy.
• Might Duy mumbled about completing thousands of push-ups, squats, and laps while unconscious.
• Hyuga Shinichi failed to lift Duy and discovered he wore four-hundred-pound weights on each leg.
• Hyuga Shinichi sealed the weights into a scroll using the basic Sealing Jutsu he had learned from Uzumaki Mito.
• Hyuga Shinichi carried Might Duy toward Uncle Maruda’s ramen cart.

Hyuga Shinichi and Might Duy recovered from their earlier ordeal over a ramen-eating contest at Maruda’s cart. Afterward, Shinichi returned Duy’s 800-pound weights, and Duy explained that he trained with them to keep improving and reach his goal.

• Hyuga Shinichi brought the unconscious Might Duy to Maruda’s ramen cart, where Duy woke to the smell of ramen and began eating.
• Might Duy and Hyuga Shinichi competed to see who could eat more, and Duy won by a landslide.
• Maruda told them not to overeat, and Shinichi refused Duy’s offer to pay for the meal.
• Shinichi unsealed Duy’s 800-pound weights, and Duy strapped them back onto his legs.
• Might Duy said the heavy weights helped him improve and reach his goal, and Shinichi wished him success.

Might Duy recalled how he found and trained to master the Eight Inner Gates, then received encouragement from Hyuga Shinichi. Xiao Chun arrived and invited Duy to dinner, leaving him yet to answer while Shinichi anxiously watched their exchange.

• Might Duy remembered finding a scroll about the Eight Inner Gates and spending years training despite people mocking him for remaining a Genin.
• Hyuga Shinichi encouraged Might Duy, who was delighted to receive his support.
• Xiao Chun arrived to thank Might Duy for helping her grandmother, and Shinichi suspected she had a crush on him.
• Might Duy mistook Xiao Chun's blushing for a sign that she was overheated and advised her to avoid the sun.
• Xiao Chun invited Might Duy to her grandmother's home for a meal, while Hyuga Shinichi worried that he had accidentally interrupted their chance to meet.

Might Duy accepted Xiao Chun’s invitation to lunch, and Hyuga Shinichi left them alone before summoning Ao Qing at his training spot. Ao Qing confronted Shinichi over being reverse-summoned away during their last battle, while Shinichi tried to explain why he had done it.

• Might Duy agreed to have lunch at Xiao Chun’s home, and Hyuga Shinichi excused himself and wished her good luck.
• Hyuga Shinichi went to his waterfall training spot and summoned Ao Qing.
• Ao Qing wrapped around Shinichi’s face and angrily demanded to know why he had sent it away without asking.
• Shinichi explained that he had reverse-summoned Ao Qing during the battle in the Land of Whirlpools to help his teammates escape.
• Ao Qing recalled returning to the battlefield, finding Shinichi unconscious and learning he was safe, then waiting in vain for him to summon it.
• Ao Qing threatened to strangle Shinichi with its coils the next time he summoned it.

Hyuga Shinichi made peace with Ao Qing after she got angry that he had not summoned her to fight beside him, then asked her to demonstrate her Wood Style. When Ao Qing quickly ran out of chakra, Shinichi offered her an experimental Military Ration Pill he had made.

• Hyuga Shinichi apologized to Ao Qing for not summoning her, and she forgave him after warning him not to do it again without asking.
• Ao Qing denied caring about Shinichi and insisted she only wanted his help becoming a dragon; Shinichi promised to take her somewhere that might help in a few years.
• Ao Qing told Shinichi she was ten years old, then demonstrated her Wood Style by growing small roots and saplings and spitting wooden spikes.
• Ao Qing said her Wood Style exhausted her chakra after only a few uses, so Shinichi gave her an untested prototype Military Ration Pill to try.

Hyuga Shinichi gave Ao Qing a Military Ration Pill, helping him grow a huge tree with Wood Style before he passed out from chakra exhaustion. The next morning, Shinichi went running with Might Duy, and Xiao Chun arrived with rice balls she had made for Duy.

• Hyuga Shinichi explained that the Military Ration Pill could replenish Ao Qing's chakra and help strengthen his Wood Style.
• Ao Qing swallowed the pill, grew a large tree, and then passed out from using too much chakra.
• Hyuga Shinichi took Ao Qing home, where Ao Qing coiled around Shinichi until he gave him his pillow.
• Hyuga Shinichi met Might Duy on an early morning run and asked about his lunch with Xiao Chun.
• Xiao Chun found Might Duy and gave him rice balls she had prepared for his breakfast.

Xiao Chun gave Might Duy rice balls, and his enthusiastic praise made her believe he had accepted her feelings. As the Senju Compound prepared for a New Year's Eve celebration, Hyuga Shinichi took charge of cooking and began making fried pork patties and fries.

• Xiao Chun gave Might Duy rice balls, and he praised them as the best in the world, delighting her.
• Hyuga Shinichi encouraged Xiao Chun and told her she had made progress toward winning Might Duy's heart.
• Uzumaki Mito arranged a New Year's Eve celebration at the Senju Clan Compound to comfort the Uzumaki Clan after its move to Konoha.
• Hyuga Shinichi, Nawaki, and Namikaze Minato returned from shopping with ingredients and seasonings for the celebration.
• Hyuga Shinichi and Namikaze Minato carried supplies to the plaza, where Hyuga Shinichi began preparing fried pork patties with his secret spice blend.

Hyuga Shinichi prepared fried pork patties and potato sticks for the New Year's Eve gathering, winning over the guests and teaching the volunteer cooks about white pepper and ketchup. He then led everyone in preparing a feast, which Uzumaki Mito welcomed them to enjoy as the celebration began.

• Hyuga Shinichi served fried pork patties and potato sticks with homemade ketchup, and the children and adults praised the food.
• Hyuga Shinichi explained how he used white pepper in the pork and how he made the ketchup to the interested cooks.
• Hyuga Shinichi organized the volunteers as they prepared ingredients and cooked a variety of dishes.
• The guests gathered around the tables, and Uzumaki Mito welcomed everyone and invited them to enjoy the meal.
• Everyone sampled the feast and filled the gathering with cheerful conversation and praise for Hyuga Shinichi and the cooks.