Recaps

Hinata, Tenten, and Rock Lee confronted Raiga and the Kurotsuchi Clan at the mining site, but Hinata separated from her teammates to face Raiga alone. Hinata’s clash with Raiga escalated into a battle of powerful techniques, ending with her Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven colliding with his lightning dragon.

• Hinata, Tenten, and Rock Lee scouted the mine, attacked the Kurotsuchi Clan guards, and helped the villagers escape while Karashi was revealed among the enemy.
• Hinata identified the thick fog as the Hidden Mist Technique and suspected Raiga was controlling the Kurotsuchi Clan, while Raiga and Ranmaru watched from the nearby peak.
• Raiga separated Hinata from Tenten and Rock Lee, and Hinata chose to confront him while hoping to learn about Ranmaru’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Raiga attacked Hinata with the Thunder Saber Fang, but she evaded his strikes and targeted his acupoints before he shifted to Lightning Release.
• Hinata improved her Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, but Raiga’s Sword Lightning broke through it and blasted her former position.
• Raiga led Hinata to a mountaintop and suggested ending the conflict, but Hinata considered killing him to protect their secrets, and Raiga prepared a lightning attack.
• Raiga shaped the lightning pouring from his charged twin blades into a colossal dragon, and Hinata met it with Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven.

Hinata defeats Raiga while trying to secure Ranmaru, but respects Raiga’s choice to end their bond. Ranmaru then tells Hinata he believes she does not belong to this world.

• Hinata survived Raiga’s Lightning Dragon Tornado and pursued him through a Tenseigan portal while Tenten and Rock Lee escaped the collapsing mountain.
• Hinata followed Raiga to Ranmaru, attacked him, and fought through his lightning techniques as she tested her new Tenseigan wings and sword.
• After Hinata weakened Raiga, Ranmaru asked her to let him go, and Hinata pulled Ranmaru from the travel bag before taking them both away through a spatial passage.
• Tenten and Rock Lee reached the devastated battlefield but found no sign of Hinata, Raiga, or Ranmaru.
• Hinata recognized that Raiga wanted to sever his bond with Ranmaru, and Raiga summoned lightning that consumed him after Hinata struck him off a cliff.
• Ranmaru spoke about his loneliness and his bond with Raiga, then told Hinata he had noticed that she did not belong to this world.

Hinata rescued Ranmaru from Raiga and brought him back to Konoha, where she arranged for Aunt Yamada to care for him. After completing her mission, Hinata used her reward to begin generating an intelligence-specialized character for the Dawn Organization.

• Ranmaru pledged himself to Hinata before losing consciousness, and Hinata’s Tenseigan vanished as she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tenten and Rock Lee found Hinata carrying the feverish Ranmaru, then helped her recover at Granny Sansho’s Life Curry House.
• Hinata and Ranmaru reunited, and Hinata concealed the truth about Raiga and the mountain’s destruction from Tenten and Rock Lee.
• Hinata, Tenten, Rock Lee, and Ranmaru returned to Konoha, where Tsunade arranged for Ranmaru’s treatment and questioned what had really happened.
• Back at the Hyuga Clan, Hinata asked Aunt Yamada to care for Ranmaru, and Yamada agreed after Hinata offered to help increase her salary.
• After the mission was declared complete, Hinata received a Special Character Generation Opportunity and chose to create an intelligence-specialized character rather than pursue combat abilities.
• Hinata entered Wu Zhu’s details, directed the system to generate him near Winter Rain’s generation site, and viewed a mountain summit surrounded by cliffs.

Hinata brought Wu Zhu into the Dawn Organization’s plans and arranged a new headquarters for him. As Wu Zhu traveled toward Konoha with a merchant caravan, he met Shanteng, whose friendly approach concealed his own agenda.

• Hinata watched Character Generator No. 2 release a giant hand into the sky, then met Wu Zhu after he emerged from the machine.
• Hinata asked Wu Zhu to establish a Dawn Organization headquarters in a hidden cave and arranged for members to join him there.
• Wu Zhu climbed down the mountain and headed toward Konoha, while Hinata sent letters, ordered clothes for him, and visited Yuhua Senju.
• Wu Zhu joined a merchant caravan after demonstrating his ninja abilities and offering to protect its members in exchange for supplies and shelter.
• Unable to sleep, Wu Zhu climbed a nearby hill and met Sai, who introduced himself as a traveler bound for Konoha with an elder from the Land of Rivers.
• Sai, whose real name was Shanteng, smiled and talked with Wu Zhu while privately suspecting he was a dangerous operative.
• Wu Zhu claimed he had lost his companions after a river carried him into the Land of Rivers, and Shanteng offered to take him to Konoha while concealing that his own story was fabricated.