Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Iroha knocked out a drunken Uchiha chunin who ambushed him, then faced two Uchiha Military Police officers who tried to arrest him. He held his own against their coordinated attacks, but they escalated the fight with a kunai and a barrage of shuriken.

• Hyuga Iroha dodged the Uchiha chunin’s lethal kick and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Two Uchiha Military Police officers arrived and demanded that Hyuga Iroha come with them, but he refused.
• The officers attacked Hyuga Iroha, who used his Byakugan, spiritual-particle perception, and mixed fighting styles to evade and strike them.
• The older officer drew a kunai while the younger officer threw dozens of shuriken to block Hyuga Iroha’s escape routes.

Hyuga Iroha defeated two Uchiha Police Force guards after they attacked him, then faced a larger force led by Uchiha Setsuna. As the Uchiha elites moved to seize him, someone among them called for a halt.

• Hyuga Iroha used Rotation to deflect the guards’ shuriken, then swiftly knocked both Uchiha guards unconscious.
• The injured Uchiha chunin fired an emergency signal that summoned the Uchiha Police Force.
• Uchiha Setsuna arrived with fifteen Uchiha elites and ignored the shop owner’s explanation that his clansman had attacked first.
• Uchiha Setsuna accused Hyuga Iroha of attacking the Police Force and ordered the elites to take him to the dungeon.
• Two Uchiha elites prepared to shackle Hyuga Iroha, but another Uchiha clansman called, “Wait!”

Hyuga Seisen arrived as the Uchiha Police Force tried to arrest Hyuga Iroha, who had defended himself after a drunken Uchiha attacked him. After Setsuna ordered the Uchiha to seize Iroha and his companions, Seisen challenged their authority, and the confrontation threatened to erupt into a clan clash.

• Uchiha Inaho urged Uchiha Setsuna to hear Hyuga Iroha's side, but Setsuna rejected his warning and ordered the Police Force to capture Iroha.
• Four Uchiha elites charged at Iroha, but Hyuga Seisen and Himon landed between them, and Iroha reported what had happened.
• Setsuna accused Seisen of shielding Iroha and defying Konoha's laws, while Seisen questioned the Uchiha's right to discipline his people.
• Hyuga Himon challenged Setsuna over the Uchiha attack, and Setsuna ordered his forces to arrest Iroha, Seisen, and Himon.
• Hyuga Seisen released a powerful aura and demanded to know who dared approach them.

Hyuga Seisen used Spiritual Pressure to force Uchiha Setsuna and the Uchiha Police Force elites to their knees. After Seisen released Uchiha Inaho, Setsuna insisted that Seisen was a criminal he intended to arrest, and the pressure suddenly intensified.

• Hyuga Seisen's Spiritual Pressure pinned the Uchiha Police Force elites and Uchiha Setsuna to the ground.
• Uchiha Inaho told Seisen they were on the same side, and Hyuga Iroha confirmed that Inaho had tried to stop the others.
• Hyuga Seisen released Inaho from the pressure, and Inaho stood up and called the incident a misunderstanding.
• Hyuga Seisen approached Uchiha Setsuna and asked who he intended to arrest.
• Uchiha Setsuna declared that he would arrest Seisen for attacking the Konoha Police Force, and the pressure intensified until two Uchiha elites spat blood.

Hyuga Seisen subdued Uchiha Setsuna and identified signs that someone had tampered with several Uchiha ninjas’ food, suggesting a conspiracy against the clan. Uchiha Shisui knocked Setsuna unconscious so he could take charge of the investigation.

• Hyuga Seisen’s spiritual pressure overwhelmed the Uchiha ninjas, while Setsuna berated his clansmen for pleading for mercy.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived and suggested there had been a misunderstanding, and Seisen pointed out that the drunken chunin showed signs of food tampering.
• Seisen identified two more Uchiha ninjas with similar symptoms, leading Shisui to suspect a conspiracy against the Uchiha Clan.
• Setsuna accused Seisen of trying to drive a wedge between the Uchiha and other clans, and Hyuga Himon mocked him over the Uchiha’s strained relations.
• Shisui apologized to Setsuna and used his three-tomoe Sharingan to put the elder under genjutsu.

Hyuga Seisen spared the Uchiha after Uchiha Shisui apologized, then took Hyuga Himon and Hyuga Iroha to the Death Forest to witness his immense power. He unleashed a devastating beam that vaporized the forest around its impact, leaving Iroha injured by the delayed blast’s roar.

• Uchiha Shisui asked Hyuga Seisen to spare the Uchiha and apologized to Hyuga Iroha and the Hyuga Clan on behalf of the Police Force.
• Hyuga Seisen released the Uchiha from his crushing pressure, accepted Shisui’s apology, and departed with Hyuga Himon and Hyuga Iroha.
• Hyuga Seisen led Himon and Iroha to the Death Forest and ordered them to retreat and hide.
• Hyuga Seisen gathered spiritual particles into a massive sphere and fired a blue beam into the forest.
• The beam vaporized trees and rock, and the delayed shockwave’s roar left Hyuga Iroha bleeding from his ears and other openings.

Hyuga Seisen destroyed a Root underground laboratory and left its animal masks and Sternritter intelligence displayed as a warning to Shimura Danzō. Danzō recognized Seisen’s overwhelming power but refused to abandon his plan to control him, ordering Root to conceal the destruction.

• Hyuga Himon and Hyuga Iroha emerged from hiding and saw that Seisen’s attack had turned the forest into a vast crater, exposing the remains of Root’s underground laboratory.
• Hyuga Seisen displayed the masks of five dead Root ninjas and the Sternritter intelligence scroll at the crater’s edge before leaving with Himon and Iroha.
• Shimura Danzō arrived with Aburame Ryoma, who reported that the blast had vaporized the laboratory and defeated its defenses without leaving detectable chakra residue.
• Danzō crushed the tanuki mask and roared Seisen’s name, while Ryoma warned that Root could not afford to oppose him for now.
• Danzō insisted that Seisen’s power had to be controlled and ordered Ryoma to erase evidence of the site and keep ANBU away.

Uchiha Fugaku ended the clan meeting without retaliating against Hyuga Seisen, while Seisen returned home and found thoughtful food and notes left for him. The next morning, he summoned the five core members of the Sternritter to his study, where they gathered to hear his order.

• Uchiha Setsuna demanded that Uchiha Fugaku avenge the humiliation of the Police Force, but Uchiha Shisui argued that the Uchiha had provoked Hyuga Seisen.
• Uchiha Fugaku challenged Uchiha Setsuna to match Lord Madara's strength and then ended the meeting, saying he and Shisui would find a solution.
• Hyuga Seisen returned to the Hyuga compound with Himon and Iroha and told them not to spread what had happened.
• Hyuga Seisen found a lunch box and an affectionate note waiting in his study, then discovered warm tea and another note there the next morning.
• Hyuga Seisen ordered Ryosuke, Go, Shin, Himon, and Iroha to gather in his study, and the five arrived half an hour later.

Hyuga Seisen brought five Hyuga men into an independent space made of spirit particles and began expanding it into a secure foundation for the clan. The men started drawing spirit particles through portals and adding them to the space’s walls.

• Hyuga Seisen transported Hyuga Go, Hyuga Shin, Hyuga Himon, Hyuga Iroha, and Hyuga Ryosuke from his study into a hidden spirit-particle dimension.
• Hyuga Seisen explained that the space blocked chakra-based access and spying, but its twelve-meter diameter was too small for the Hyuga Clan’s future needs.
• Hyuga Seisen told the five men to draw spirit particles from the outside world through their Spirit Networks while he laid the foundation for expanding the space.
• Hyuga Seisen opened five passages connecting the dimension to his study and ordered the men to channel spirit particles into the walls.
• The five men began drawing in spirit particles and pouring them into the walls, which grew darker and more solid.

Hyuga Seisen left his expanding Spirit Particle Space to answer Minato Namikaze’s request for help with Kushina Uzumaki. He diagnosed and cleared a chakra blockage near her seal, relieving her discomfort.

• Hyuga Seisen saw that the Spirit Particle Space had expanded into a vast plain and told the five others to continue their work.
• An ANBU led Hyuga Seisen to Minato Namikaze’s home, where Minato asked him to examine Kushina Uzumaki.
• Hyuga Seisen used his Byakugan to find a small chakra blockage near Kushina’s seal and cleared it with Yang Release chakra.
• Kushina’s discomfort vanished, and Minato thanked Hyuga Seisen.

Hyuga Seisen warned Minato Namikaze that Kushina's weakened seal during childbirth would make the Nine-Tails a target, then helped him plan defenses. Minato agreed to summon Jiraiya, and Seisen offered to bring him back while remaining concerned about the threat posed by the man with Kamui.

• Minato Namikaze thanked Hyuga Seisen for helping Kushina, who praised Seisen's medical skills.
• Hyuga Seisen warned Minato Namikaze that Kushina's seal would weaken during childbirth and that someone would try to seize the Nine-Tails.
• Hyuga Seisen advised Minato Namikaze to conceal the due date, change the Barrier Team's passwords and formulas, and prepare two fake delivery locations alongside the real one.
• Minato Namikaze agreed to follow Seisen's precautions and called for Jiraiya and the Third Hokage to be in the village.
• Hyuga Seisen offered to bring Jiraiya back on a mission, then wondered whether their preparations could stop the man with Kamui.

Hyuga Seisen tracked Jiraiya to a hot spring inn in the Land of Hot Water and interrupted his massage to discuss serious business. Jiraiya dismissed Seisen’s concerns and insisted that his writing research was more important.

• Hyuga Seisen used Spirit Network to locate Jiraiya’s chakra signature in the town.
• Seisen tried to enter the inn, then slipped over its courtyard wall and evaded the guards inside.
• Seisen overheard Jiraiya enjoying a massage while the woman attending him told a tale about her missing husband.
• Seisen opened the guest room door and found Jiraiya receiving a massage from the woman.
• Seisen urged Jiraiya to discuss serious business, but Jiraiya defended his search for writing inspiration.

Hyuga Seisen found Jiraiya at a hot spring inn and delivered Minato's secret message asking him to return to Konoha before Kushina's delivery, when the Nine-Tails seal would weaken. Jiraiya agreed to go with Seisen, though they planned to look for Orochimaru first.

• Hyuga Seisen ended Jiraiya's massage and sent the attendant away so they could speak privately.
• Seisen showed Jiraiya Minato's personal coded seal and gave him a confidential scroll.
• Jiraiya read that Kushina was pregnant, the Four Symbols Seal would weaken on her delivery day, and powerful enemies might threaten Konoha.
• Jiraiya hesitated over his unfinished mission to track Orochimaru, so Seisen offered to accompany him.
• Jiraiya agreed to search for Orochimaru with Seisen before returning to Konoha.

Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen tracked Orochimaru to a hidden laboratory in the Land of Grass, where they found gruesome human experiments. As Jiraiya recoiled at the sight, Seisen sensed another active energy signature beyond the laboratory.

• Hyuga Seisen reasoned that Orochimaru was likely operating in the lawless Land of Grass, and Jiraiya agreed to investigate there.
• Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen traveled toward the Land of Grass, where Seisen sensed concealed explosive tags and led them to a hidden entrance.
• Hyuga Seisen opened a secret passage in a vine-covered rock wall, and the two entered the underground facility.
• Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen found human specimens disfigured by failed experiments, and Jiraiya reacted with rage at Orochimaru's cruelty.
• Hyuga Seisen examined the specimens and sensed a highly active energy signature behind the laboratory.

Hyuga Seisen and Jiraiya discovered Orochimaru’s experiment to create Mangekyō Sharingan vessels, then received intelligence placing Orochimaru and Sasori near the Land of Rain. They left the erased laboratory and headed toward the Land of Rain.

• Hyuga Seisen found a hidden chamber containing an embryo made with First Hokage cells and White Zetsu fragments, and concluded Orochimaru was trying to mass-produce bodies capable of bearing the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hyuga Seisen took the experiment data scroll and annihilated the laboratory’s contents while Jiraiya reluctantly let him proceed.
• Jiraiya reasoned that the laboratory was one of Orochimaru’s abandoned bases and that more might be found by following the trail.
• A toad delivered an emergency message reporting a suspected Orochimaru accompanied by Sasori of the Red Sands near the Land of Rain border.
• Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen changed course and raced toward the Land of Rain.

Hyuga Seisen and Jiraiya entered the Land of Rain and discovered that its chakra-laced rainfall served as a detection net. Seisen concealed their chakra with a reishi membrane, and they reached a border town where civilians hid from patrols.

• Hyuga Seisen detected faint chakra throughout the rain and explained to Jiraiya that it tracked chakra-bearing beings across the country.
• Jiraiya confirmed that the detection system had been deployed since his last visit during the Second Great War.
• Hyuga Seisen created a reishi membrane that concealed their chakra from the rain’s detection net.
• Hyuga Seisen and Jiraiya crossed into the Land of Rain under the membrane and entered a quiet border town.
• Hyuga Seisen and Jiraiya passed shuttered shops, frightened civilians, and uniformed patrols marching through the streets.

Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen entered Amegakure and learned that Pain had taken control after Hanzō and his followers were killed. Seisen detected Orochimaru and a living puppet underground, and Jiraiya identified the puppet as Sasori of the Red Sands.

• Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen saw rogue Rain ninja patrolling a fearful, subdued town.
• At a teahouse, Jiraiya questioned the proprietress, who said Hanzō and his close associates had been killed by six bodies calling themselves gods and that Pain now ruled Amegakure.
• Jiraiya told Seisen to avoid the main roads as patrols grew denser in the heart of the territory.
• Seisen used his spirit particle perception to locate two chakra signatures forty meters underground: Orochimaru and a living puppet.
• Jiraiya recognized the puppet as Sasori of the Red Sands.

Hyuga Seisen and Jiraiya found Sasori of the Red Sands with Orochimaru in the underground pipes. Jiraiya confronted his former friend over the human experiments, while Orochimaru began explaining his pursuit of limitless jutsu.

• Jiraiya and Seisen reached an abandoned industrial district and used a summoned toad to check the underground pipe for traps.
• Jiraiya and Seisen found Sasori polishing a puppet component beside a seated figure, and Sasori identified them as visitors for the other man.
• Jiraiya tried to stop Sasori from leaving, but Seisen restrained him and said Sasori was not their target.
• Jiraiya recognized the seated figure as Orochimaru, who showed keen interest in Seisen.
• Jiraiya demanded to know why Orochimaru had tortured people in a laboratory in the Land of Grass, but Orochimaru replied that Jiraiya did not understand.
• Orochimaru displayed a test tube of dark green liquid and said that he and Jiraiya had pursued different goals, then spoke of humanity's limits and the limitless possibilities of jutsu.

Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru over his experiments and attacked him in Sage Mode, but Orochimaru escaped by shedding a failing spare body. Hyuga Seisen identified the limits of Orochimaru’s rebirth technique and sent Jiraiya back to Konoha to protect Kushina before her delivery.

• Orochimaru explained that he pursued eternity and regarded his test subjects as necessary, prompting Jiraiya to abandon hope of changing his mind and enter Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya struck Orochimaru with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, but Orochimaru turned into golden liquid and left behind a shed snakeskin.
• Hyuga Seisen examined the snakeskin with his Byakugan and deduced that Orochimaru had transferred his soul into another body, at the cost of significant life essence.
• Jiraiya accepted that Konoha’s safety and Kushina’s delivery took priority over pursuing Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Seisen told Jiraiya to return to the village while he handled other matters, and Jiraiya raced toward the Land of Fire.

Hyuga Seisen established the first anchors for his Divine Expressway network across the Land of Rain, linking them to the space beneath Konoha. After completing the regional network, he encountered Pain and several Akatsuki members, who revealed they knew of his feats and Orochimaru’s interest in him.

• Hyuga Seisen confirmed the area was clear and chose Amegakure’s underground passages as the site of his first Spirit Particle Space anchor.
• Hyuga Seisen opened the anchor, linked it to the space beneath Konoha, and marked it Rain-01.
• Hyuga Seisen raced across the Land of Rain and established additional anchors in secluded locations.
• Hyuga Seisen emerged from a mountain fissure at dawn and found Pain and four other Akatsuki members waiting for him.
• Pain recited Hyuga Seisen’s record, including his killing of Rasa, and told him that Orochimaru admired him.