Chapter Summaries

Kiyoshi confronted Hyuga Natsu about making amends for the insult to the Uchiha Clan and pressured her over her position in the Hyuga Clan. The chapter ended with Hyuga Natsu refusing to call herself a servant of the main family, while Kiyoshi continued to exploit her shame.

• Kiyoshi's group and Hyuga Natsu's group gathered by a campfire and ate fish they had caught in the Death Forest.
• Kiyoshi asked Hyuga Natsu to speak with him, and Tetsu Hyuga told her he would stand by her side.
• Kiyoshi demanded one million ryo as compensation, and Hyuga Natsu said she could not pay without informing Ginka Hyuga.
• Kiyoshi accused Hyuga Natsu of lacking sincerity and asked her to make amends another way.
• Kiyoshi told Hyuga Natsu to describe herself as a servant of the Hyuga main family, but she refused to say it.

Kiyoshi forced Natsu Hyuga to reveal her Caged Bird Curse Mark and studied its pattern, then left her crying in the cave. At dawn, Mei Terumi and a group of allied ninja surrounded Kiyoshi's group, seeking their kekkei genkai and scrolls.

• Kiyoshi pressured Natsu Hyuga to remove her headband and reveal her Caged Bird Curse Mark, which he memorized with his Sharingan.
• Kiyoshi told Natsu that revealing the seal did not settle Ginka Hyuga's matter, then left her weeping in the cave.
• Tetsu Hyuga questioned Natsu after she came out, but she gave only a hoarse, vague answer.
• At dawn, Mei Terumi and her temporary alliance arrived and surrounded Kiyoshi's group.
• Kaguya Katsuya remarked that he had found the Sharingan and Byakugan users traveling together, while Kurenai Yuhi clung nervously to Kiyoshi's clothes.

Kiyoshi protected Natsu Hyuga when a large alliance of ninjas tried to force the Hyuga branch-family members to reveal their Caged Bird Curse Marks and seize their Kekkei Genkai. He attacked with a lightning-charged palm and gained the Ruthless Iron Hand trait, while the battle was just beginning.

• Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya watched the Chunin Exams footage and discussed how the exams reflected conflicts between nations.
• Kiyoshi reassured Kurenai Yuhi as Kaguya Katsuya and the gathered ninjas surrounded their group.
• Himondo Hyuga and Tetsu Hyuga revealed their Caged Bird Curse Marks, but Natsu Hyuga refused to uncover her forehead.
• Mei Terumi confirmed that the alliance wanted Kekkei Genkai, including the Byakugan and Kiyoshi's Sharingan.
• When ninjas charged Natsu Hyuga, Kiyoshi used Lightning Release: Lightning Finger to pierce one attacker with his palm and obtained the Ruthless Iron Hand trait.

Kiyoshi attacked the assembled ninjas to complete a trait, then fought Suigetsu Hozuki with his sword and Lightning Release. As Kiyoshi cornered Suigetsu, Kaguya Katsuya intervened by throwing a bone spear into the path of Kiyoshi’s slash.

• Kiyoshi used palm strikes to defeat the minor-village ninjas, completed Ruthless Iron Hand, and unlocked Battlefield Rose.
• Kiyoshi summoned a ninja sword and fought off the attackers as Mei Terumi ordered them to attack together.
• Baki, Pakura, and Hoki Taro retreated, while Kiyoshi let them go.
• Suigetsu Hozuki attacked Kiyoshi with his massive blade and Water Bullet Technique, but Kiyoshi countered with Lightning Release: Earth Trek and a sword strike.
• Kaguya Katsuya used Shikotsumyaku to throw a bone spear into the path of Kiyoshi’s slash, giving Suigetsu a chance to escape.

Kiyoshi killed Suigetsu and forced the remaining contestants to surrender their scrolls, while Mei Terumi was stopped from continuing the fight. After collecting the scrolls and valuables, Kiyoshi left the others to recover from the deadly encounter.

• Kiyoshi used Lightning Release to kill Suigetsu, frightening the surrounding ninjas into holding back.
• Kiyoshi completed the Battlefield Rose tag and demanded that the survivors hand over their scrolls.
• Mei Terumi began forming hand seals to attack Kiyoshi, but Kaguya Katsuya stopped her and urged her to protect the village’s interests.
• Kaguya Katsuya handed his scrolls to Kiyoshi, and the remaining genin followed; Kiyoshi let the survivors leave.
• Kiyoshi asked Kurenai Yuhi to help gather the scrolls and collected valuables from the corpses.
• Shikamaru was downcast over the casualties, while Temari teased him for being mentally fragile.

Kiyoshi sold the scrolls he had collected, earning 120,000 ryo and allowing more candidates to pass the second exam. The Konoha leaders discussed the unusually high number of successful candidates and scheduled the third exam for one month later.

• Kiyoshi confirmed that his Burning Heart entry had advanced, then continued toward the tower with his companions.
• On the final day, Kiyoshi sold twenty-four scrolls to waiting candidates for 5,000 ryo each and earned 120,000 ryo.
• Minato Namikaze told Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha leaders that Kiyoshi's scroll sales explained why more than thirty candidates passed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended Kiyoshi's actions, while Shimura Danzō selected several Konoha ninjas for Root.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that the third exam would take place in one month, and Minato Namikaze planned to develop his technique during the break.

After the Chunin Exam teams emerged, Kiyoshi planned his next training and sought to improve his Eye Power and Medical Arts while reconnecting with allies and rivals. Natsu Hyuga returned to the Hyuga Clan and told Ginka Hyuga that Kiyoshi had overheard what she said.

• Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Emi, and Uchiha Yaotuan emerged from the exam and praised Kiyoshi's strength when they saw him.
• Kiyoshi noticed Natsu Hyuga and considered approaching Kushina, while Kurenai Yuhi asked him to teach her taijutsu and Asuma Sarutobi tried to show off his muscles.
• Pakura vowed to train harder and repay Kiyoshi for humiliating her, while Mei Terumi and Kaguya Katsuya reflected on their fallen companions and Kiyoshi.
• Kiyoshi bought training tools, sent Kurenai Yuhi home with dango, and decided to visit Hazuki Uchiha for genjutsu scrolls as his Medical Arts tag neared completion.
• Natsu Hyuga visited Ginka Hyuga and told her that Uchiha Kiyoshi had overheard what she said.

Ginka Hyuga learned that Kushina had heard her insulting remarks about Kiyoshi Uchiha and decided to bring gifts and apologize to them both. The next day, Kiyoshi visited Yakushi Nonō at Konoha Hospital, where their conversation ended with him nearly making an awkward comment about her lesson.

• Natsu Hyuga told Ginka Hyuga that Kushina had heard the remarks and that Kiyoshi Uchiha was angry and had demanded compensation and an apology.
• After hearing Natsu’s account, Ginka decided to prepare gifts and visit Kushina Uzumaki and Kiyoshi Uchiha.
• Natsu returned to the branch family’s dining area, where Tetsu Hyuga asked whether anything had happened.
• Kiyoshi brought expensive fruit to Yakushi Nonō at Konoha Hospital and discussed the Chunin Exams with her.
• Yakushi Nonō asked Kiyoshi about something she had previously taught him, and he nearly called it “very big” before correcting himself.

Yakushi Nonō took Kiyoshi to Konoha’s medical experimentation facility and revealed the history of the village’s Wood Release experiments and its research into Summoning Beasts. She rewarded him for becoming a medical ninja by letting him choose a Summoning Beast, leaving Kiyoshi to decide which one he wanted.

• Yakushi Nonō took Kiyoshi away from their usual studies and brought him to a facility where Konoha conducted Medical Arts experiments.
• Yakushi Nonō explained that Konoha had once tried to replicate the First Hokage’s Wood Release using consenting adult test subjects, but the project ended after they all died.
• Kiyoshi asked about the creatures in the glass tanks, and Yakushi Nonō explained that they were Ninja Beasts from Summoning Island and described the Uzumaki Clan’s experiments to cultivate Ultimate Summoning Beasts.
• Yakushi Nonō led Kiyoshi to the central area and invited him to choose a Summoning Beast as a reward for becoming a Chunin.

Kiyoshi promised Yakushi Nonō he would help if the orphanage ever needed him, then chose and contracted a white snake Summoning Beast. After demonstrating that he had learned five Medical Arts, he began studying poison under Nonō.

• Kiyoshi promised Yakushi Nonō that he would help her if she needed him in the future.
• Kiyoshi chose a juvenile white snake that could heal him, conceal itself, and gather intelligence, then signed a summoning contract with her.
• Kiyoshi gained the Apprentice Summoning Ninja (White) trait, which reduced the Chakra cost of summoning by five percent.
• Kiyoshi told Yakushi Nonō that he had learned the five Medical Arts she had taught him and demonstrated them at Konoha Hospital.
• Yakushi Nonō gave Kiyoshi scrolls and began teaching him about poison.

Kiyoshi advanced his poison training while Natsu Hyuga and Mikoto visited his home at different times. The chapter ended with Hazuki Uchiha arriving to see him, bringing a genjutsu scroll.

• Natsu Hyuga brought pastries to Kiyoshi’s home to confirm an appointment, but he was away, so she left to look for Kushina Uzumaki.
• Mikoto followed Natsu and recognized her as a Hyuga, then realized she had come to Kiyoshi’s house.
• After visiting Kurenai Yuhi, Kiyoshi studied a poison scroll and gained the Apprentice Poison Ninja trait.
• Hazuki Uchiha saw Yamada Taiyu off at the edge of the Uchiha Compound, then went to find Kiyoshi.
• Kiyoshi welcomed Hazuki at his door and noted that she had brought him a genjutsu scroll.

Kiyoshi pressured Hazuki into giving him genjutsu scrolls by confronting her about her contempt for his home and hinting that his future success could affect her relationship with Yamada Taiyu. After Hazuki agreed, Kiyoshi invited her to drink from the tea he had already sipped.

• Hazuki visited Kiyoshi and noticed his run-down home, scroll collection, and White Snake.
• Kiyoshi served tea, and Hazuki offered him ten sets of Chainmail Armor and a Sealing Scroll.
• Kiyoshi called out Hazuki for looking down on his home and told her to leave if she did not want to be there.
• Kiyoshi brought up Hazuki's male friend Yamada Taiyu and suggested that Fugaku would value him more after the Chunin Exams.
• Hazuki agreed to give Kiyoshi genjutsu scrolls, and Kiyoshi pushed his partly drunk tea toward her.

Kiyoshi pressured Hazuki Uchiha into drinking tea as an apology and demanded genjutsu scrolls, while gaining Eye Power from her distress. At Naka Shrine, Fugaku and Mikoto discussed Kiyoshi’s visits from outsiders, including a girl from the Hyuga Clan.

• Hazuki Uchiha reluctantly drank the tea and apologized, and Kiyoshi accepted while demanding more than one genjutsu scroll.
• Hazuki Uchiha left, and Kiyoshi found standard Chainmail Armor in the Sealing Scroll and put it on.
• Kiyoshi noticed his right eye’s Eye Power rise and resolved to keep exploiting Hazuki Uchiha for more.
• Fugaku asked Mikoto how Kiyoshi was adapting to life with the Uchiha.
• Mikoto said a Hyuga girl had visited Kiyoshi with pastries, while no Uchiha had come to see him.

Mikoto investigated Kiyoshi’s ties to the Uchiha, then brought him his living expenses and revealed that she expected to marry within a year or two. Kiyoshi considered how much time he had to shape events before Itachi’s birth and the Third Shinobi World War.

• Fugaku asked Mikoto to investigate Kiyoshi’s bond with the Uchiha, and Mikoto agreed.
• Hazuki Uchiha delivered two Genjutsu scrolls to Kiyoshi, who began studying them.
• Mikoto questioned Hazuki about Kiyoshi, and Hazuki praised him despite resenting how he had obtained the scrolls.
• Mikoto gave Kiyoshi his living expenses and said she would help if he needed more.
• Kiyoshi asked when Mikoto planned to marry, learned it would likely be within a year or two, and began considering how to delay Itachi’s birth and influence the coming war.

Kiyoshi completed his first step toward the Pure Genjutsu Scholar entry and met Anko Mitarashi, who brought him to Orochimaru. Orochimaru asked Kiyoshi about his plans for the future, leaving their discussion about to begin.

• Kiyoshi learned the Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings Technique and obtained the Pure Genjutsu Scholar entry, which reached 75% progress by the next day.
• Anko Mitarashi confronted Kiyoshi over her fallen dango, then discovered he was the Kiyoshi Uchiha whom Orochimaru had asked her to bring.
• Kiyoshi accompanied Anko to Orochimaru’s laboratory and revealed the White Snake he had received from Teacher Nono.
• Orochimaru recognized Kiyoshi’s Summoning Beast and asked what Kiyoshi planned to do after becoming a Chunin.

Kiyoshi discussed the meaning of a white snake shedding its skin with Orochimaru, prompting Orochimaru to reconsider how rebirth and immortality might be achieved. Orochimaru gave Kiyoshi a ninjutsu scroll, and Anko led him home while reminding him to replace her tricolor dango.

• Orochimaru recalled how seeing Nawaki and Dan Katō die had shaped his view of life, then dismissed the supposed luck and rebirth associated with white snakes.
• Kiyoshi argued that shedding skin represented discarding old restraints and continuing the soul or will, prompting Orochimaru to consider replacing an aging body with a young one as a path to immortality.
• Orochimaru invited Kiyoshi to become his assistant, but Kiyoshi declined because he was Yakushi Nonō's disciple.
• Orochimaru gave Kiyoshi an Orochi-Style Body Replacement Technique scroll as a gift.
• Orochimaru ordered Anko Mitarashi to take Kiyoshi home, and Anko reminded Kiyoshi to compensate her for her tricolor dango.

Kushina dreamed of the Nine-Tails and felt increasingly suffocated by the ANBU surveillance and her repetitive days. When Minato canceled their Fuinjutsu practice to work on another technique, Kushina felt stood up, and Kiyoshi found her afterward.

• Kiyoshi explained the Orochi-Style Body Replacement Technique and its link to Soft Physique Modification before giving Anko Mitarashi dango and heading home.
• Kushina woke from a nightmare about the fox-like beast, then met her ANBU watchers and told them she planned to practice Fuinjutsu with Minato Namikaze.
• Kiyoshi checked his Entry System progress toward Pure Genjutsu Scholar and resumed training with White Snake nearby.
• Minato told Kushina he needed to practice another, unfinished and dangerous ninjutsu instead of studying Fuinjutsu with her.
• Kushina accused Minato of not wanting to spend time with her, and he left when someone called him.
• Kiyoshi encountered Kushina and asked what had happened, and she told him Minato had stood her up.

Kiyoshi befriended Kushina by giving her a movie setup and installing it in her home, while secretly testing whether the Anbu would allow him near her. He left after Kushina mentioned that Natsu Hyuga had come looking for her, giving Kiyoshi a reason to pursue his conflict with Ginka Hyuga.

• Kiyoshi gave Kushina a Sealing Scroll containing movies and a player, and she agreed to let him install them at her home.
• Kushina led Kiyoshi into her tower-like home, where he set up the movie equipment as the Anbu watched covertly.
• Kiyoshi refused payment and called Kushina his friend, making her happy to count him among her few friends.
• Kushina told Kiyoshi that Natsu Hyuga had visited and said that the person she represented had realized her mistake.
• Kiyoshi recognized that Natsu had come on Ginka Hyuga's behalf, then left after inviting Kushina to find him when she finished the movies.

Kiyoshi gained the blue Chakra Nature Transformation Master entry and considered combining Lightning Release with Medical Arts to strengthen his body. Natsu Hyuga was sent to visit Kiyoshi again, while he began imagining ways to use White Snake’s healing in combat.

• Kiyoshi left Kushina’s home after thanking her and resolved to build goodwill with her to obtain sealing techniques.
• Ginka Hyuga ordered Natsu Hyuga to visit Kiyoshi, and Natsu set out with a basket of pastries.
• Tetsu Hyuga suspected Natsu was visiting Kiyoshi, but Himondo Hyuga redirected him to his Gentle Fist training.
• Kiyoshi advanced Pure Genjutsu Scholar into Illusionary Arts Genin, then combined entries to gain Chakra Nature Transformation Master, which increased combination ninjutsu power by 40%.
• Kiyoshi considered combining Lightning Release with Medical Arts to accelerate his physical training and wondered whether White Snake could heal him during battle.

Natsu Hyuga visited Kiyoshi to arrange a meeting between him and Ginka Hyuga, and Kiyoshi agreed to meet after the Chunin Exams. Half a month later, Kiyoshi followed Kushina after she broke past ANBU, heading toward Training Ground Three as he anticipated the Nine-Tails might rampage.

• Natsu Hyuga brought Ginka Hyuga's apology gift and asked Kiyoshi to meet her, but he initially refused and challenged Natsu about the branch family's fate.
• Kiyoshi made Natsu pay a personal price for his forgiveness, then agreed to meet Ginka after the Chunin Exams.
• Natsu reported Kiyoshi's answer to Ginka, then spoke with Tetsu Hyuga about the clan before leaving him troubled and confused.
• Over the next half month, Kiyoshi visited Kushina's home to exchange videotapes and waited near the place where she and Minato Namikaze had argued.
• After Kushina and Minato argued, Kushina bound the ANBU who tried to stop her and ran toward Training Ground Three, with Kiyoshi following.