Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Seisen revealed that he had delivered six enemy bodies and six renowned ninja blades to Orochimaru, exposing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s failure to report the spoils. After Seisen left, Hiruzen sent ANBU to summon Orochimaru and retrieve everything from the eastern front.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura challenged Hyuga Seisen’s battle claims and demanded evidence.
• Hyuga Seisen said he had handed six bodies and six ninja blades to Orochimaru, prompting the advisers to accuse Orochimaru of withholding strategic resources.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted Orochimaru’s report had mentioned the spoils but claimed he had overlooked the details.
• Hyuga Seisen left the office while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura pressed Hiruzen Sarutobi to act.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent an ANBU ninja to summon Orochimaru and bring back the six blades and all enemy corpses.

Shimura Danzō went to Orochimaru after Hyuga Seisen burned off his right arm, and Orochimaru regrew it using Hashirama cells. As Danzō prepared to leave, a huge sealing rack in the laboratory began scraping beneath its black cloth.

• Shimura Danzō hurried to Orochimaru's laboratory with his right arm severed and charred, demanding surgery.
• Orochimaru examined the wound and prepared a syringe of highly active Hashirama cells.
• Orochimaru injected the cells into Danzō's stump, and Danzō endured a painful half-hour as his right arm regenerated.
• Danzō tested his new, corpse-pale arm and vowed to settle his score with Hyuga Seisen.
• A huge sealing rack beneath a black cloth began scraping as Danzō prepared to leave.

Danzo discovered Orochimaru had hidden the Seven Ninja Swordsmen’s weapons and remains, but an ANBU delivered Hiruzen’s order for Orochimaru to bring all eastern-front spoils to the Hokage. Meanwhile, Hyuga Yamato became convinced Hyuga Seisen could grant power to the branch family and resolved to become a monster like them.

• Danzo found Samehada, the other ninja swords, and the preserved corpses of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen in Orochimaru’s laboratory, then accused Orochimaru of stealing village spoils.
• Orochimaru claimed he had kept the weapons and bodies for research, while Danzo demanded that Root take custody of them.
• An ANBU arrived with Hiruzen’s order for Orochimaru to bring the recovered weapons, corpses, and all other eastern-front spoils to the Hokage’s office.
• Orochimaru gathered the weapons and refrigeration unit with his Hidden Shadow Snake Hands and prepared to leave.
• Hyuga Yamato recalled the branch family’s archers defeating Hidden Mist ninjas and concluded that Hyuga Seisen had a way to bestow power.
• Hyuga Yamato decided he wanted to become a monster like the newly empowered branch-family members.

After a brief pause in the war, Hiruzen Sarutobi held the delayed Chūnin Exams, where Hyuga Seisen posed a controversial three-door probability question as the written test’s final challenge. The examinees protested the question, leaving the test hall in uproar over whether they should switch doors.

• Kumogakure withdrew after ten days of fighting with Hidden Rock Village, and the major nations tacitly halted hostilities along their borders.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi opened the Chūnin Exams and named Yuhi Shinku, Baiyun Zaojian, and Hyuga Seisen as the written test’s chief examiners.
• Yuhi Shinku and Baiyun Zaojian administered difficult questions on battlefield tactics and encrypted intelligence.
• Hyuga Seisen described three doors, one safe and two containing explosive tags, then asked whether examinees should stick with their first choice or switch after he revealed a dangerous door.
• Several genin objected that Hyuga Seisen’s question was unfair and argued that choosing between the two remaining doors gave them equal odds.

Hyuga Seisen gave the genin a three-door probability problem, and most examinees believed switching made no difference. Nara Yanshui and Obito Uchiha chose to switch for different reasons, and Seisen ended the chapter by declaring that switching was required.

• Hyuga Seisen ordered the examinees to choose whether to switch doors and explain their reasoning after an enemy eliminated one option.
• Nara Yanshui realized that the host's choice revealed information, crossed out his original answer, and chose to switch.
• Obito Uchiha reasoned that Seisen would not set a meaningless question and chose to switch as well.
• After time ran out, most examinees dismissed the problem as a fifty-fifty choice and mocked its complexity.
• Nara Yanshui asked Seisen to reveal the answer, and Seisen declared that the examinees must switch.

Hyuga Seisen explained why switching doors raised a contestant’s survival odds, using a thousand-door example to show how an informed host’s choices conveyed information. He left the candidates stunned and departed after the lesson, while Obito Uchiha smugly claimed he had understood Seisen’s trick.

• Hyuga Seisen dismissed the genin’s fifty-fifty objection and used a thousand-door example to demonstrate that switching raised the survival probability to nearly certain.
• Nara Yanshui realized that switching exploited the information revealed by the host’s choices, and Yuhi Shinku and Baiyun Zaojian recognized the lesson’s battlefield relevance.
• Hyuga Seisen warned the candidates that ignoring information in an enemy’s actions could get them killed, leaving the room silent.
• Obito Uchiha told Rin he had guessed the answer by doing the opposite of what Seisen wanted, while Rin watched Seisen admiringly.
• Hyuga Seisen collected the test papers and left the classroom.

The preliminary round of the third exam began, and Uchiha Shinichi faced Might Guy in the first match. Guy’s unexpectedly explosive kick bypassed Shinichi’s Sharingan, leaving the fight poised to turn against him.

• Hyuga Seisen watched the exhausted examinees from the examiners’ platform as the third exam’s preliminary round began.
• Uchiha Shinichi and Uchiha Tsukasa discussed Seisen’s promotion and doubted the extent of his strength.
• The display matched Uchiha Shinichi against Might Guy, whom Shinichi dismissed as a weak taijutsu specialist.
• Might Guy told Shinichi that Seisen had urged him to defeat geniuses, and Seisen anticipated an interesting match.
• Might Guy launched a Leaf Hurricane, and Shinichi activated his Sharingan to track the kick.
• Guy accelerated his leg in midair, catching Shinichi off guard as he tried to evade.

Might Guy defeated Uchiha Shinichi with overwhelming taijutsu, leaving the exam arena stunned and celebrating his victory. As Guy embraced his father, Hiruzen Sarutobi praised their strength while suspecting Hyuga Seisen had helped Guy achieve it.

• Might Guy broke through Uchiha Shinichi’s Fireball Jutsu and outpaced his Sharingan, then knocked him unconscious with a series of kicks.
• The medical ninja found Uchiha Shinichi badly injured, and the referee declared Might Guy the winner.
• Might Duy rushed into the arena, and he and Might Guy tearfully celebrated together.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised the father and son’s strength and quietly glanced at Hyuga Seisen, suspecting pure physical training could not explain Guy’s performance.

Hiruzen questioned Hyuga Seisen about Might Guy’s extraordinary physical abilities, and Seisen explained how he had healed Guy and Might Duy and helped strengthen their bodies. Hiruzen described why the village had overlooked them and thanked Seisen for revealing their talent.

• Hiruzen confronted Hyuga Seisen, saying Guy’s physical abilities had exceeded normal human limits and asking whether Seisen was responsible.
• Seisen explained that he had used Lightning Release chakra and medical ninjutsu to repair old injuries in Might Duy and Guy, then taught them body-strengthening methods.
• Hiruzen acknowledged Seisen’s medical skill and explained that the village reserved resources for people who had already proven their value.
• Hiruzen compared Seisen’s sudden rise with the village’s investment in established talents, noting Seisen had become a resource in his own right.
• Hiruzen said Might Duy and Guy’s unbreakable bodies and obsessive perseverance were their real talents, then thanked Seisen for bringing them to the village’s attention.

After defeating Uchiha Shinichi, Might Guy credited his victory to Hyuga Seisen’s Lightning Release training and rushed to celebrate with him. Kakashi recognized how strong Guy had become and wondered whether he had surpassed him.

• Kakashi realized Guy had defeated Shinichi while still wearing weights and recalled his father’s warning not to underestimate Guy.
• Might Guy and Might Duy finished crying together, and Duy urged his son to thank Hyuga Seisen for guiding him.
• Guy charged onto the main platform and excitedly asked Seisen whether he had seen the fight.
• Guy declared that the Lightning Release Stimulation Method had let him overcome the Sharingan and proposed running five hundred laps with Seisen.
• Seisen called Guy the real Konoha White Fang, and Kakashi looked up in surprise.

After the Chūnin Exams, war resumed across the Ninja World, and Minato Namikaze sent Kakashi, Obito, and Rin to destroy Hidden Rock Village’s supply bridge. Their mission was disrupted when Mahir captured Rin, and Kakashi and Obito clashed over whether to pursue her or follow orders.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted nearly all the exam participants to Chūnin, and the students returned to their battlefields.
• Two months later, the Five Great Nations renewed their war in the Land of Rain, where Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato formally established the Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki sent Higashi Shinin to attack Konoha’s defensive line, and Minato organized a counterattack while assigning Kakashi, Obito, and Rin to destroy Kamui Bridge.
• Mahir ambushed Kakashi’s team and vanished with Rin after seizing her.
• Kakashi insisted that the mission came first, but Obito grabbed him and condemned him for refusing to save Rin.

Obito awakened his Sharingan and, with Kakashi, rescued Rin from the Hidden Rock Village base. As the cave collapsed and Obito faced a falling boulder, a golden-haired figure appeared beneath it.

• Obito rushed to the Hidden Rock Village cave to save Rin, and Kakashi followed, taking a wound across his left eye while protecting him from Taiseki.
• Obito awakened his Sharingan, saw Taiseki’s chakra trail, and killed him before he could stab Kakashi.
• Obito and Kakashi fought Firelight together, freed Rin from her bindings, and fled as the cave collapsed.
• When Kakashi fell and a boulder threatened to crush him, Obito pushed him clear and was left in its path.
• Kakashi’s ninja tool pouch buzzed, and a golden-haired figure appeared beneath the falling boulder.

Minato Namikaze rescued Obito Uchiha, Kakashi, and Rin Nohara from the collapsing cave and killed the Hidden Rock Village ninja who had attacked them. While recovering, the students learned that Minato had used a sealing formula from Hyuga Seisen to store senjutsu chakra and enter Sage Mode instantly.

• Minato Namikaze used Flying Thunder God to pull Obito Uchiha and Kakashi clear as the cave collapsed.
• Minato killed Firelight with a Rasengan and led his exhausted students to a concealed hollow.
• Rin Nohara treated Kakashi's injured eye and Obito's bruised back while Minato explained Sage Mode.
• Minato revealed that a sealing formula taught by Seisen had stored senjutsu chakra, allowing him to enter Sage Mode instantly.
• Kakashi and Obito questioned how Seisen could have taught Minato sealing techniques.

Minato explained that Seisen had mastered sealing techniques quickly and devised a Storage Seal that let Minato enter Sage Mode instantly, saving Obito and helping him rescue Kakashi. At Mountain's Graveyard, Black Zetsu reported to Madara that Minato had reached Obito in time, disrupting Madara's plan to bring the Uchiha boy back.

• Minato told Kakashi, Rin, and Obito that Seisen learned sealing techniques in five days and developed the Storage Seal from Sage Mode's slow chakra gathering.
• Minato explained that Seisen's Sage Mode came from his own discovery and seemed connected to his recently awakened Kekkei Genkai.
• Minato told Obito that Seisen's seal let him use Sage Mode on the battlefield, giving him time to reach Obito before the falling rock struck.
• Minato said that without the Storage Seal, he could have rescued only Kakashi.
• Black Zetsu returned to Madara at Mountain's Graveyard and reported that Minato had reached Obito in time.
• Black Zetsu explained that Minato had used a Storage Seal to store senjutsu chakra and enter Sage Mode instantly.

Madara ordered Zetsu to keep the Eye of the Moon Plan moving, while warning him to watch or eliminate Hyuga Seisen, whom he saw as a dangerous threat. Madara then fell into suspended sleep, unaware that Black Zetsu intended to use him as a sacrifice for his mother’s resurrection.

• Madara learned that Hyuga Seisen had provided a sealing technique and ordered Zetsu to eliminate him if he interfered with the plan again.
• Madara discussed Obito’s role and learned that Nagato possessed the Rinnegan while following Yahiko’s Akatsuki and its ideals of peace.
• Madara approved a plan to exploit Yahiko’s bond with Nagato and shatter Nagato’s hopes to awaken the Rinnegan’s full power.
• Madara warned Zetsu that Seisen’s unusual power and intelligence reminded him of Tobirama Senju, then ordered Zetsu to monitor the pieces while he slept.
• After Madara entered suspended sleep, Black Zetsu revealed his intention to use Madara and the others as sacrifices for his mother’s resurrection.

Hyuga Seisen expanded the Sternritter and used them for raids and black-market assassinations, drawing Hyuga Hiashi’s attention after rumors spread about multiple Hyuga archers. When Hiashi confronted him, Seisen claimed the archers had awakened their abilities through his New-Style Gentle Fist and revealed a crowd of shadow clones holding Spirit Bows.

• Hyuga Seisen used Energy Crystals from the Sternritter’s missions to recruit members and strengthen loyal ones, bringing the group close to fifty.
• Rumors of around twenty Hyuga shinobi wielding blue light arrows reached Hyuga Hiashi, who summoned Seisen to explain why he had not reported them.
• Seisen told Hiashi that early students of his New-Style Gentle Fist had evolved a Kekkei Genkai, and he demonstrated dense chakra formation.
• Seisen created more than a dozen Shadow Clones, each holding a Spirit Bow, and asked Hiashi if they were the archers he had heard about.

Hyuga Seisen persuaded Hyuga Hiashi that the New Gentle Fist could awaken an ancestral Hyuga power and gave him a Main Family Special Edition scroll, though the claimed connection to the blue bows was fabricated. After agreeing to overlook Seisen’s experiments, Hiashi checked the Caged Bird master scroll and found its formula intact.

• Hyuga Seisen told Hyuga Hiashi that the blue bows were an atavistic bloodline response triggered by chakra compression training.
• Seisen presented Hiashi with a draft of the New Gentle Fist Breathing Method—Main Family Special Edition and claimed it was suited to the main family.
• Hiashi tested the method, felt his chakra control improve, and apologized to Seisen while promising to verify the scroll and overlook the branch family’s training.
• Seisen left with a mocking smile, and Hiashi went alone to the underground chamber where the clan’s core secrets were stored.
• Hiashi inspected the Caged Bird master scroll and confirmed that its formula remained intact and showed no signs of tampering.

Black Zetsu worried that Konoha’s growing strength would disrupt Madara’s plan, but the Mizukage’s surviving forces returned from battle mentally shattered by an enemy wielding unfamiliar power. Their testimony about a white-clad legion and a leader who could vaporize hundreds left Black Zetsu alarmed by the threat.

• Black Zetsu studied the war map and feared Konoha’s advances would bring peace before Madara’s Eye of the Moon Plan could proceed.
• A Hidden Mist ANBU told the Third Mizukage that the entire surviving expeditionary force had mutinied and gone insane.
• Black Zetsu, controlling the Mizukage, went to the harbor and found the survivors traumatized and raving about white demons and divine punishment.
• A wounded chunin described the enemy splitting the sea, striking the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and vaporizing three hundred shinobi with white light.
• Black Zetsu recognized the survivors’ account of a white-clad legion and a sky-standing leader as a deeply alarming, unfamiliar form of combat.

Black Zetsu turned Hidden Mist's defeat into a rumor campaign portraying Hyuga Seisen as a monster who devoured chakra and stripped away Kekkei Genkai, hoping to unite the other nations against Konoha. Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage received the reports and began treating Seisen as a growing threat.

• Black Zetsu stopped the Mizukage from killing the routed Hidden Mist soldiers and ordered their fear to spread instead.
• Black Zetsu sent White Zetsu clones to embellish the survivors' accounts and portray Hyuga Seisen as the natural enemy of all shinobi.
• Ōnoki read a report claiming Seisen devoured chakra and stripped away Kekkei Genkai, then decided he was too dangerous to let grow.
• Kitsuchi questioned the report's credibility, and Ōnoki replied that intelligence harmful to Konoha was true enough.
• The Fourth Raikage crushed his desk after reading the report, while Killer B confirmed Seisen's power was increasing based on their past fight with him.

In Sunagakure, Rasa learned that Konoha had hidden Hyuga Seisen’s devastating ability and ordered a meeting to reconsider the alliance. In Konoha, Hyuga Iroha discovered branch-family members wielding Light Bows and saw that Hyuga Ryosuke had no Caged Bird curse mark.

• Rasa read intelligence about Seisen’s chakra-devouring and matter-decomposing power, blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for hiding it, and called the alliance into question.
• Hyuga Iroha, troubled by how far Seisen had surpassed him, went to the Death Forest to train.
• Iroha sensed an unfamiliar disturbance, used his Byakugan, and stealthily approached its source.
• Iroha saw Hyuga Ryosuke and several branch-family members form Light Bows and fire blue arrows that pierced a distant boulder.
• Ryosuke removed his forehead protector, and Iroha saw that he had no Caged Bird curse mark.