Chapter Summaries

Naruto persuaded Sasuke to let him join his dangerous path of revenge, while Kawaki Aoba used his otherworldly Way of Destruction against two Hyuga ninjas before Hatake Kakashi intervened. Kakashi offered to help Kawaki learn about his origins and led him deeper into the village, as Naruto and Sasuke wondered about Kawaki’s hidden power.

• Naruto insisted that he would stand by Sasuke, and Sasuke finally agreed to let him come along while warning him to follow his commands.
• Kawaki Aoba paralyzed one Hyuga ninja with White Lightning and revealed that his power came from another world.
• Hatake Kakashi arrived, ordered the Hyuga ninjas to leave, and told Kawaki Aoba to control his strength.
• Kakashi offered to explain what he knew about Kawaki Aoba’s origins and led him into the village.
• Naruto and Sasuke discussed Kawaki Aoba’s Byakugan and hidden power, then reaffirmed their determination to become Hokage.

Kawaki Aoba learned that his parents were Hatake Sakumo and a powerful being from another world, then struggled to hide his newly awakened Byakugan from the Hyuga Clan. After gaining control of its awakening and confiding in Rock Lee, he discovered that the Hyuga Clan had begun tracking him, and two Hyuga Clan ninjas confronted him near the village.

• Kakashi told Kawaki Aoba about his parents and urged him to use his power to protect Konoha.
• Kawaki Aoba concealed his awakened Byakugan with goggles and tried to prevent it from activating unpredictably.
• A stranger caught Kawaki Aoba training with his Byakugan active, but let him go after warning him away from the training ground.
• Kawaki Aoba told Rock Lee about his Byakugan, and Rock Lee promised to keep the secret and support him.
• Kawaki Aoba researched and trained until he learned to control the Byakugan, but members of the Hyuga Clan eventually discovered his identity and began investigating him.
• Two Hyuga Clan ninjas confronted Kawaki Aoba near the village, and he suspected his mission teammates or Yuhi Shinku had revealed his secret.

Kawaki Aoba refused the Hyuga Clan’s summons, defeated two Hyuga ninja, and defended his actions before the Third Hokage. The chapter then shifted to a renewed confrontation in which Kawaki Aoba accused two Hyuga ninja of being impostors and warned them that he would make them pay if they made an enemy of him.

• Kawaki Aoba refused to go with two Hyuga ninja and beat them when they tried to force him, warning them to tell their elder not to bully him.
• Kawaki Aoba fortified his estate and trained before accepting a summons from the Third Hokage.
• Kawaki Aoba told the Third Hokage that he had acted in self-defense and would respect the Hyuga Clan without submitting to it.
• Kawaki Aoba confronted two Hyuga ninja, accused them of being enemy spies with forged Byakugan, and challenged their conduct as contrary to Hyuga traditions.
• The Hyuga ninja admitted they had overlooked their clan’s rules, while Kawaki Aoba asserted his standing as a civilian ninja and warned them against making an enemy of him.

Kawaki Aoba fought Hyuga Taro and Hyuga Miko after they tried to take him to the Hyuga Clan over his awakened Byakugan. He defeated them and survived Miko’s final lightning-like attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Hyuga Taro and Hyuga Miko demanded that Kawaki Aoba come with them, but he refused and argued that they had no right to seize him.
• Taro and Miko attacked Kawaki Aoba together, but he evaded their strikes and countered their coordinated assault.
• Kawaki Aoba broke Taro’s wrist and knocked Miko to the ground, then rejected their claim that the Hyuga Clan could do as it pleased.
• Taro tried to attack Kawaki Aoba again, but Aoba knocked him down and turned to leave.
• Miko unleashed a final burst of white lightning at Kawaki Aoba, who caught it in his hand and remained unharmed.

Kawaki Aoba defeated two Hyuga Chunin and faced Hyuga Neji, who challenged him to a match with the fate of the kill order and Aoba’s freedom at stake. Their battle continued as the chapter shifted to another scene where two Hyuga Chunin struggled to keep up with Aoba’s speed.

• Hyuga Taro and Miko reported their defeat to the Hyuga elders, and Hyuga Neji said he would speak to the Hokage.
• Kawaki Aoba dodged and struck down two Hyuga Chunin with Body Flicker and White Lightning.
• Hyuga Neji challenged Kawaki Aoba: if Aoba won, Neji would consider revoking the kill order; if Aoba lost, he would have to join the clan.
• Kawaki Aoba and Hyuga Neji began a fierce fight, trading attacks as Neji blocked Aoba’s lightning with Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation.
• In a later training-ground scene, Hyuga Ichiro and another Chunin complained that Aoba’s speed and White Lightning made him impossible to catch.

Kawaki Aoba outlasted Hyuga Ichiro and Hyuga Jiro in a battle of attrition, then defeated them with a powerful Chakra attack. As he faced two more Hyuga Clan ninja and unleashed his final trump card, a middle-aged man appeared and challenged him.

• Hyuga Ichiro and Hyuga Jiro tried to provoke Kawaki Aoba into fighting head-on, but he dismissed their demand for an honorable battle and evaded their attacks.
• The two Chunin withdrew and later reactivated their Byakugan, but Kawaki Aoba vanished and then appeared behind Hyuga Jiro to blast both men to the ground.
• Kawaki Aoba left the training ground after confirming that Hyuga Ichiro and Hyuga Jiro could no longer fight.
• In a separate forest encounter, Kawaki Aoba taunted two Hyuga Clan ninja and used a powerful ninjutsu to break through their defenses and injure them.
• A middle-aged man in black ninja attire emerged from the forest, and the two injured Hyuga Clan ninja looked to him as their savior.

Rin-chan helped Kawaki Aoba defeat Hyuga Soren and two Hyuga ninja, but Kawaki Aoba continued fighting the surviving Hyuga Clan Chunin. After replenishing his Chakra with a Blue Potion, he used clones and evasive techniques to confound them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hyuga Soren overwhelmed Kawaki Aoba until Rin-chan arrived and joined the fight.
• Rin-chan and Kawaki Aoba defeated Hyuga Soren, then Rin-chan knocked down the two Hyuga ninja.
• Kawaki Aoba drank a Blue Potion to restore his Chakra, and the two Hyuga Clan Chunin realized he could sustain himself with restorative medicine.
• The Chunin changed tactics and attacked Kawaki Aoba with the Byakugan and Gentle Fist techniques.
• Kawaki Aoba summoned dozens of Shadow Clones and kept shifting among them, preventing the Chunin from identifying his real body.

Kawaki Aoba defeated two Hyuga Clan Chunin, bound them, and rescued a village girl named Xiaohua before escorting her home. After defeating a group of attackers, he faced a lavishly dressed man, then brought a captured Hyuga Chunin toward the Uchiha Police Force as part of a plan.

• Kawaki Aoba used ninjutsu and his swift movement technique to defeat two Hyuga Clan Chunin, and one surrendered.
• Kawaki Aoba bound the Chunin and found Xiaohua, a captured village girl, then escorted her safely home.
• Xiaohua gave Kawaki Aoba a basket of snacks in thanks, and he left the village.
• Several black-clad ninjas confronted Kawaki Aoba, but he defeated them before a lavishly dressed man appeared.
• Kawaki Aoba dragged a captured Hyuga Clan Chunin to the Uchiha Police Force, intending to use him as a pawn.

Kawaki Aoba brought two Hyuga Chunin to the Uchiha Police Force and accused them of being spies to implicate the Hyuga Clan. Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Fugaku oversaw the investigation, which uncovered the Chunin’s intelligence but also made Fugaku suspect Aoba was hiding his Byakugan awakening.

• Kawaki Aoba took the captured Hyuga Chunin to the Uchiha Police Force and claimed they had attacked him and tried to seize his Byakugan.
• Uchiha Itachi questioned Aoba about his evidence and warned him that a false accusation could harm an innocent person.
• The Uchiha Police Force questioned the three separately and sent ninja to investigate the scene at Aoba’s home.
• Uchiha Fugaku learned through genjutsu that the two Hyuga Chunin had intelligence to reveal, while Aoba denied knowing what they had wanted.
• Uchiha Fugaku noticed gaps in Aoba’s account and suspected he was concealing his Byakugan awakening and shifting blame.

Uchiha Fugaku interrogated Kawaki Aoba over the Byakugan and, after Hyuga investigators arrived, sent Aoba away for a clan investigation. Fugaku then refused to let Aoba leave and offered him a mission as a chance to prove his worth.

• Uchiha Fugaku questioned Kawaki Aoba, and a report confirmed that Byakugan power existed within Aoba’s body.
• Two Hyuga Clan investigators said they had come to investigate suspected spies and took Aoba with them for further questioning.
• Uchiha Fugaku planned to use the incident to demand an explanation from the Hyuga Clan while recognizing that the Byakugan’s presence touched the clan’s bottom line.
• Kawaki Aoba asked Uchiha Fugaku to let him prove himself, but Fugaku insulted him as a Uchiha Clan waste who had awakened the Byakugan.
• Uchiha Fugaku agreed to give Kawaki Aoba a chance and said he would need to complete a mission.

Kawaki Aoba recovered the Hyuga Clan's lost Byakugan and apologized to its head, but Uchiha Fugaku still pressed him to reveal what he knew about Konoha's spies. Hyuga Hinata and Nara Shikamaru arrived to take Aoba home and joined Fugaku's questioning, which ended with Fugaku dismissing Hinata's defense of him.

• Kawaki Aoba accepted Uchiha Fugaku's mission to find the Hyuga Clan's lost Byakugan within three days.
• After searching unsuccessfully, Kawaki Aoba helped a lost girl get home, learned the Byakugan was in a cave nearby, and recovered it.
• Kawaki Aoba returned the Byakugan to the Hyuga Clan head, then apologized to him at Uchiha Fugaku's insistence.
• Uchiha Fugaku confronted Kawaki Aoba in his room and tried to remove his sunglasses, but Hyuga Hinata and Nara Shikamaru arrived before he could.
• Uchiha Fugaku questioned Kawaki Aoba about how he had caught two spies, while Aoba denied knowing anything beyond what he had told them.
• Hyuga Hinata suggested Aoba might truly lack intelligence, and Uchiha Fugaku replied that she was close to him.

Kawaki Aoba weathered Uchiha Fugaku’s suspicions and was officially placed on a Hokage-led squad with Yuhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma. After the trio trained together, Kurenai warned that the Hyuga Clan might be targeting their team, and Aoba declined his friends’ offer to stay with them, saying he had another way to handle the trouble.

• Hyuga Hinata defended Kawaki Aoba and demanded evidence from Uchiha Fugaku, who ordered Aoba to remain under guard while his identity was investigated.
• Yuhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma arrived to support Aoba and confirmed that Sarutobi Hiruzen had approved their team.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen took the three youths to the Hokage Building, made them members of a squad directly under him, and assigned their duties and training.
• The trio trained together and built their teamwork, until Yuhi Kurenai warned Aoba and Asuma that the Hyuga Clan might have designs on their squad.
• Sarutobi Asuma offered Aoba a place to stay, but Aoba declined and said he had a way to deal with the danger.

Kawaki Aoba faced mounting pressure from the Hyuga Clan, the Uchiha Clan, and Sarutobi Hiruzen over the alleged Byakugan bloodline, while he concealed his intentions under Anbu surveillance. As the Hyuga Second Elder sought answers from the Hokage, Yuhi Shinku argued that Kawaki Aoba should remain on his team, and the Second Elder arrived at the Hokage Building again.

• Uchiha Fugaku ordered a ninja to take two Hyuga Clan Chunin on a hostile visit to the Hyuga Clan.
• The Hyuga Second Elder learned that Kawaki Aoba had left the Uchiha Police Force with Sarutobi Asuma's young son and Yuhi Shinku's daughter, then ordered a Jonin to watch Kawaki Aoba.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to have the Anbu investigate whether Kawaki Aoba possessed the Byakugan bloodline and whether he intended to spread it, while the Second Elder reluctantly accepted the arrangement.
• An Anbu member questioned Kawaki Aoba, who denied possessing or intending to leak the Byakugan bloodline, then began watching him as Kawaki Aoba stayed inside his house.
• Yuhi Shinku asked Sarutobi Hiruzen to keep Kawaki Aoba on his team before transferring him to the Anbu, but the Second Elder arrived at the Hokage Building before Sarutobi Hiruzen decided how to respond.

Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed Kawaki Aoba’s awakened Byakugan with Hyuga Second Elder and insisted that Kawaki Aoba’s future should be considered without disrupting Konoha’s stability. After Fugaku confronted him over the Hyuga matter, Sarutobi Hiruzen called Kawaki Aoba in to discuss his choices.

• Hyuga Second Elder demanded that Sarutobi Hiruzen explain Kawaki Aoba’s awakening and proposed that Kawaki Aoba join the Hyuga Clan for training before returning to serve Konoha.
• Kawaki Aoba told Yuhi Shinku that he did not know which path to choose.
• Hyuga Second Elder questioned Sarutobi Hiruzen about interfering in Hyuga Clan affairs, and Sarutobi Hiruzen said the clan should decide Kawaki Aoba’s arrangements.
• Fugaku and other Uchiha Clan members arrived and urged Sarutobi Hiruzen not to favor the Hyuga Clan; Sarutobi Hiruzen promised to remain fair and objective.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Yuhi Shinku to bring Kawaki Aoba to meet him, then began discussing Kawaki Aoba’s Byakugan awakening.

After Shimura Danzō challenged the Hyuga Clan over the village incident, Kawaki Aoba traded away his Byakugan for powerful items and prepared a second, larger sacrifice. The chapter ended as a new Skill Orb entered his body and began strengthening his perception.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen praised Kawaki Aoba's talent and urged the Hyuga Second Elder to consider admitting him to the main family, and the elder asked for time to consult the clan.
• Shimura Danzō entered the Hokage Office and accused the Hyuga Clan of provoking conflict by attacking a civilian ninja, turning the discussion into a heated dispute.
• Worried about being caught up in the political turmoil, Kawaki Aoba asked Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai to guard him while he sacrificed his Byakugan at the Altar.
• The Altar gave Kawaki Aoba a Lightning Release: Chidori Stream scroll, the Raiga sword, and a Blood Explosion Pill, and he told his teachers he had traded away his Byakugan.
• Kawaki Aoba sacrificed a Military Ration Pill and received a medium mana potion, then offered his Byakugan in a second sacrifice.
• A large silvery-white Skill Orb entered Kawaki Aoba's body and began enhancing his consciousness and perception.

After gaining a powerful sensory ability through a sacrifice, Kawaki Aoba discovered that it let him perceive Konoha and glimpse people’s emotions and future movements. As a bandaged man confronted him over his supposed betrayal, Aoba offered to help him destroy the Hyuga Clan.

• Kawaki Aoba regained a black-and-white perception of Konoha and told Yuhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma that his sacrifice had granted him a new skill.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen questioned Aoba about the sacrifice, examined the silvery sphere he produced, and warned him to stay cautious.
• Aoba tested his max-level Observation Haki, sensed emotions and future movements, and identified Anbu and hostile ninja watching him.
• Aoba suspected the Hyuga Clan and Konoha’s shadowy forces would target him, then sensed a bandaged man outside his door.
• The bandaged man accused Aoba of betraying Konoha and the Hyuga Clan and tried to take him into custody.
• Aoba offered the man a deal: help him get rid of the Hyuga Clan, but the man balked at killing members of a Konoha clan.

Kawaki Aoba prepared for the Hyuga Clan’s pursuit, defeated their forces in the forest, and spared Hyuga Hinata after overcoming her in battle. He left the forest as Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai worried about protecting him and the trouble surrounding his Byakugan.

• Kawaki Aoba secretly prepared for battle while the Hyuga Clan searched for him and investigated his friends.
• Kawaki Aoba returned to Konoha and laid traps in the forest, where Hyuga Clan ninja soon surrounded him.
• Kawaki Aoba used his traps and fighting skill to defeat the Hyuga Clan’s leader and inflict heavy losses on the pursuing ninja.
• Hyuga Hinata confronted Kawaki Aoba, but he defeated her and let her go with a warning to the Hyuga Clan.
• Kawaki Aoba left the forest while Sarutobi Asuma considered moving Hyuga Aoba into his home for protection and Yuhi Kurenai worried about Yuhi Shinku handling the Byakugan issue.

Kawaki Aoba claimed he had removed his eyes to gain strength, leaving Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai shocked and worried as he withdrew from them before gradually reconnecting. Later, he argued that keeping the Byakugan could provoke the Hyuga Clan and burden Konoha, and Sarutobi Asuma appealed to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who warned that the clan would fiercely resist.

• Kawaki Aoba appeared before Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai with bloody, empty eye sockets and said he had removed his eyes for strength.
• Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai supported Kawaki Aoba as he adapted to life without sight, though he became increasingly isolated and struggled with his sacrifice.
• Kawaki Aoba later reconsidered his choice, reconnected with Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai, and thanked them for their support.
• Kawaki Aoba explained to Sarutobi Asuma that keeping the Byakugan could provoke the Hyuga Clan and cause trouble for Konoha, so he was willing to give them up.
• Sarutobi Asuma promised to seek the best outcome and reported Kawaki Aoba's situation to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen warned Sarutobi Asuma that forcibly keeping the Byakugan would likely provoke a fierce backlash from the Hyuga Clan.

Sarutobi Asuma persuaded Hyuga Hiashi to let Kawaki Aoba take a test for the right to keep his Byakugan, while Kawaki Aoba stayed wary of Danzo's Root and secretly gathered allies against them. A Root ninja later offered to help Aoba resist the Hyuga Clan, but Asuma angrily challenged the stranger before Aoba could respond.

• Sarutobi Asuma asked Hyuga Hiashi to let Kawaki Aoba keep his Byakugan, and Hiashi offered Aoba a chance to prove himself through a Hyuga Clan test.
• Kawaki Aoba sensed that Danzo's Root ninja were still watching him, and a Root captain warned him to obey Danzo and avoid associating with villagers.
• Kawaki Aoba investigated Danzo and Root, made like-minded friends, and discussed uniting others in the village to resist them.
• A Root ninja told Kawaki Aoba that Danzo had ordered him to help prevent Aoba from being branded with the Caged Bird seal.
• Sarutobi Asuma appeared and angrily demanded to know who the Root ninja was and why he was speaking to Kawaki Aoba.

Kawaki Aoba faced pressure from Root and Danzo to conceal his Byakugan and submit to their plans, but he claimed he had sacrificed the eyes to a mysterious existence. When Root tried to seize him, that figure intervened and drove them off, leaving Kawaki Aoba and his allies wary of Danzo’s next move.

• A Root ninja urged Kawaki Aoba and Sarutobi Asuma to hide that Kawaki Aoba had awakened the Byakugan, and Sarutobi Asuma reluctantly agreed to trust him after Kawaki Aoba did.
• The Root ninja brought Kawaki Aoba to Lord Danzo, who offered treatment and training on condition that Kawaki Aoba never admit he had awakened the Byakugan.
• At a later secret meeting, Kawaki Aoba realized Danzo intended to use the Byakugan and the Hyuga Clan’s response for his own gain, then told Root he had sacrificed the eyes to a mysterious existence.
• When Root moved to take Kawaki Aoba away, a black-robed mysterious figure appeared and forced the Root ninja and his subordinates to withdraw.
• The mysterious figure warned Kawaki Aoba to stay careful, and Kawaki Aoba resolved to train harder while Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai continued monitoring and supporting him.