Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Seisen defeated the Nine-Tails and forced it to enter a seal in his abdomen. After the beast disappeared inside him, his Vollständig armor and wings of light broke apart, leaving him on the crater’s edge.

• Hyuga Seisen stood over the defeated Nine-Tails as Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi recovered and watched.
• The Nine-Tails asked Hyuga Seisen for a truce, but he opened a seal and ordered it to get in itself.
• The Nine-Tails submitted and transformed into a stream of chakra that Hyuga Seisen sealed inside his body.
• Hyuga Seisen’s Vollständig armor shattered into blue motes, and he descended to the ground.

After defeating the Nine-Tails and sealing it within himself, Hyuga Seisen used Sage techniques to repair the devastated battlefield. He left the Konoha shinobi stunned as he walked back toward them across the newly flattened plain.

• Hyuga Seisen released his Sage Chakra Storage Seal and created four Shadow Clones.
• Hyuga Seisen and his clones used Sage Art: Earth Release: Super Earthquake Core to fill the enormous crater with earth and stone.
• The five Hyuga Seisens used Earth Flow River and Majestic Destroyer Flame to turn the filled crater into a flat, charred plain.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Uchiha Fugaku, and the other shinobi watched in shock as Hyuga Seisen reshaped the battlefield.
• Hyuga Seisen recalled his Shadow Clones and walked toward the stunned crowd.

Hyuga Seisen returned to Konoha with Minato Namikaze and the others after subduing the Nine-Tails, revealing that he had already fought the Six Paths of Pain. As they reached the burning village, they found the Uchiha Police Force suppressing looters and protecting civilians.

• Hyuga Seisen healed Kushina and told Minato Namikaze that she would recover after resting.
• Seisen revealed to Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had already fought the Six Paths of Pain and obtained his intelligence firsthand.
• Minato Namikaze urged the group to return to Konoha, and they rushed toward the burning village.
• Jiraiya spotted wandering ninja robbing civilians, but the Uchiha Police Force arrived first and captured them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze were surprised to see the Uchiha continue their duties despite the Hokage being out of contact.

Hyuga Seisen told Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi that someone had forged their orders to confine the Uchiha Clan, and that the culprits had been killed after his Shadow Clone exposed the plot. Minato approved Seisen’s actions, while Uchiha Fugaku reported the Uchiha’s rescue work and the village’s efforts to restore order continued.

• Hyuga Seisen revealed that someone had issued a fake order in the Hokages’ names to confine the Uchiha Clan.
• Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi denied issuing the order, and Hiruzen suspected Danzo had forged it.
• Seisen said his Shadow Clone exposed the plot and that the perpetrators had been shot dead.
• Minato praised Seisen’s decisive actions and deferred further investigation until the crisis had passed.
• Uchiha Fugaku reported that the Konoha Police Force had captured more than two hundred criminals and helped evacuate civilians from the western and southern districts.
• Minato thanked Fugaku and the Uchiha Clan for their work during the disaster.

After the Nine-Tails devastated Konoha, Minato Namikaze convened the clan heads to assess the casualties and begin relief efforts. As the meeting turned toward the village's response, Shimura Danzō stormed into the Hokage's office with Root shinobi.

• Minato Namikaze reassured Uchiha Fugaku that Konoha would still need his strength during reconstruction, and Fugaku returned to organizing rescue efforts.
• Minato Namikaze gathered Konoha's clan heads for an emergency meeting and reviewed the damage report with Shikaku Nara.
• Shikaku Nara reported extensive destruction, heavy casualties, and that the village's finances had run dry.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi offered to request emergency funds from the daimyo, while Minato Namikaze ordered Earth Release shinobi to build temporary housing before nightfall.
• Minato Namikaze praised the clans' emergency response, but Shimura Danzō abruptly kicked open the office doors and entered with Root shinobi.

Shimura Danzō confronted Minato Namikaze at a high-level meeting, then accused Hyuga Seisen of murdering four of his shinobi. Seisen revealed that the men had falsely claimed to carry the Hokage’s orders to keep the Uchiha from joining the battle, leaving Danzō unable to defend his accusation without exposing his own betrayal.

• Shimura Danzō demanded that Minato explain why he had not been notified of the meeting.
• Hyuga Seisen challenged Danzō over his absence during the village’s crisis and the absence of his Root subordinates.
• Danzō accused Seisen of killing four shinobi and demanded that Minato have him arrested and interrogated.
• Seisen explained that the four men had falsely invoked Minato’s orders to keep the Uchiha from fighting, then asked whether they had been Danzō’s men.
• Danzō fell silent as the senior officials recognized that admitting the men were his would expose his attempt to weaken Konoha’s defenses.

Hyuga Seisen defended his execution of four ninjas by exposing how they had falsely used the Hokage’s orders to keep the Uchiha from fighting the Nine-Tails. Minato Namikaze challenged Danzo to explain why neither he nor Root had helped the village during the attack.

• Hyuga Seisen argued that the four ninjas had acted as traitors on a battlefield and asked Uchiha Fugaku to recount what they had done.
• Uchiha Fugaku said the four ninjas had falsely claimed the Hokage ordered the Uchiha to stay inside their compound under threat of being branded rebels.
• Fugaku explained that Seisen’s Shadow Clone exposed the lie and killed the four ninjas, allowing the Uchiha to join the rescue effort.
• Minato Namikaze pointed out that Danzo had not fought on the front lines, while Danzo defended his emergency orders and suspicion of the Uchiha.
• Minato asked Danzo where he and Root had been while the Nine-Tails rampaged, since they had neither fought it nor helped civilians.

Minato confronted Danzo over Root's absence during the Nine-Tails attack and demanded proof that they had protected the village. Danzo could not account for Root's actions, and Jiraiya and Hyuga Seisen accused him of benefiting if the Hokage had died.

• Danzo claimed Root had been guarding against opportunistic enemy villages while lecturing Minato about the Hokage's responsibilities.
• Minato asked Danzo where Root had been deployed and what results they had achieved, but Danzo said the intelligence had not yet been compiled.
• Minato stood and condemned Danzo for failing to appear while Konoha's leaders, clans, and even genin fought to protect the village.
• Danzo and the Root shinobi were left speechless as Minato demanded to know where they had been during the attack.
• Jiraiya mocked Danzo for letting others die so Root could appear important, and Hyuga Seisen suggested Danzo might have wanted the Hokage to perish and take the throne.

Hyuga Seisen interrupted Minato Namikaze’s judgment of Shimura Danzō to reveal evidence linking him to years of secret dealings with Yasushi Hyuga. The meeting erupted as Seisen accused Danzō of using branch-house corpses for experiments and helping Yasushi suppress the Hyuga branch house.

• Shimura Danzō threatened Hyuga Seisen after Seisen questioned his conduct, but Minato Namikaze stopped Root’s ninjas with a warning look.
• Minato accused Danzō of confining allied forces during the village crisis and began declaring his judgment.
• Hyuga Seisen interrupted to report that the Hyuga Clan had found records of secret transactions between Yasushi Hyuga and a high-ranking village official.
• Seisen named Shimura Danzō and accused him of harming fellow villagers, conducting human experiments, and interfering with Konoha’s decisions.
• Seisen said Yasushi had supplied dozens of dead branch-house ninjas to Root while Danzō blocked Hyuga Hiashi’s proposals to expand branch-house authority and battlefield protections.

Hyuga Seisen exposed Danzo’s collusion with Yasushi Hyuga and presented evidence that Root had targeted Hyuga Himon for capture and research. Danzo denied the accusations, but Minato Namikaze examined the evidence as Seisen revealed another piece of proof.

• Hyuga Seisen produced letters between Yasushi Hyuga and Danzo describing stolen corpses and their cooperation against Hyuga Hiashi’s proposal.
• Minato Namikaze read the letters, while Danzo insisted they were forged.
• Hyuga Seisen summoned five Root-uniformed corpses and accused Danzo’s subordinates of ambushing a Hyuga caravan to kidnap Hyuga Himon.
• Danzo denied knowing the dead men, and Hyuga Seisen gave Minato Namikaze a Root mission scroll ordering Himon’s capture alive for research.
• Hyuga Seisen pried a corpse’s mouth open and pulled out its blackened tongue for the meeting to inspect.

Hyuga Seisen exposed the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on a dead Root member, and Fugaku presented records linking Danzo to the destruction of Uchiha corpses and the theft of their Sharingan. As Minato confronted Danzo over the evidence, Choza recalled that Uchiha Ento had been killed by a Hidden Mist swordsman, not burned alive.

• Seisen revealed the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on the corpse, turning the meeting's attention to Danzo.
• Fugaku presented records showing that Uchiha Tetsuo and Uchiha Ento's bodies had been burned beyond recovery by an unrecorded ANBU squad.
• Hiruzen denied ordering the recovery, and the attendees connected the missing Sharingan to Danzo's dealings with Yasushi Hyuga.
• Minato confronted Danzo with three incidents pointing to him and demanded an explanation.
• Choza recalled carrying Ento from the battlefield after a Hidden Mist swordsman killed him, contradicting the account that his body had been burned.

Minato Namikaze removed Shimura Danzō from his office, revoked Root’s authority, and ordered the organization disbanded, citing Danzō’s crimes and the devastation of the Nine-Tails attack. Hiruzen Sarutobi argued that Root’s specialized work was necessary, and Minato began challenging that claim with mission records.

• Minato Namikaze announced Danzō’s dismissal, revoked his command over Root, and ordered Root disbanded and its records handed to ANBU.
• Danzō protested Minato’s authority, but Minato pointed to the Nine-Tails disaster’s victims and presented a dismissal order bearing the required signatures and seal.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed that Danzō should be dismissed but argued that Root’s intelligence and infiltration work could not simply be absorbed by ANBU.
• Minato told Hiruzen that Root’s history was full of crimes and said he had examined the previous year’s mission completion rates for Root and ANBU.

Minato Namikaze disbanded Root and reorganized ANBU under his direct command, then appointed Hyuga Seisen as Hokage Assistant. He also ordered the Uchiha Clan to contribute genjutsu specialists to Konoha’s Torture and Interrogation Force, surprising Fugaku.

• Minato challenged Hiruzen over Root’s poor intelligence work and its abuses against Konoha’s clans.
• Danzō angrily shouted, “HIRUZEN! I’M DANZO!!!” and stormed out of the conference room.
• Minato announced that ANBU would vet Root’s former members and that he would command ANBU, with Kakashi as deputy commander.
• Minato promoted Hyuga Seisen to Hokage Assistant, and the gathered leaders accepted the appointment.
• Minato ordered Uchiha Fugaku to assign ten three-tomoe Sharingan genjutsu specialists to the Torture and Interrogation Force, leaving Fugaku stunned.

Minato Namikaze arranged for the Uchiha Clan to join the Torture and Interrogation Force and share its street-level police duties with smaller clans. After returning home, Hyuga Seisen found that the Stone Gate had reappeared and begun draining the Nine-Tails' chakra, prompting the fox to confront him.

• Shikaku Nara stopped Yamanaka Inoichi from objecting as Minato Namikaze offered the Uchiha Clan a role in the Torture and Interrogation Force.
• Uchiha Fugaku accepted the offer but asked Minato to transfer some of the Uchiha's patrol and dispute-mediation duties to other clans.
• Minato assigned Shikaku Nara to coordinate the smaller clans' share of the street-level work, and the meeting adjourned.
• Hyuga Seisen returned home and saw the Stone Gate ask whether it should use detected high-level energy to upgrade itself.
• Hyuga Seisen agreed, and the Stone Gate began rapidly drawing chakra from the Nine-Tails through its seal.
• The Nine-Tails confronted Hyuga Seisen in the sealing space and demanded to know whether he intended to drain it dry.

Hyuga Seisen arranged for the Stone Gate to absorb the Nine-Tails’ leaking chakra as rent while it upgraded. After hearing reports of Konoha’s recovery, he sent the Hyuga Clan’s medical ninja to help assess the overwhelming number of injured at Konoha Hospital.

• Hyuga Seisen told the Nine-Tails that its leaking chakra would serve as rent, and the Nine-Tails reluctantly accepted because it could not escape or defeat him.
• The Nine-Tails asked about the Stone Gate, and Seisen claimed it had been with him since childhood and sometimes absorbed energy on its own.
• Seisen returned to his study and learned from Hyuga Go and Hyuga Himon that rescue efforts had freed trapped villagers and captured more than forty looters and rogue ninja.
• Hyuga Hiashi reported that Konoha Hospital was full and needed help assessing injuries because its examination equipment could not keep up.
• Hyuga Seisen ordered the clan to gather its trained medical ninja to assist the hospital with Byakugan-based injury assessments.

Hyuga Seisen and Hyuga Hiashi went to Konoha Hospital to help treat the wounded after the Nine-Tails' attack. Seisen began using his Byakugan to identify urgent injuries and followed Ayane to treat a young man at risk of bleeding to death.

• Hyuga Seisen told Hyuga Hiashi that he and Ayane would help at the hospital, and Hiashi agreed to make arrangements.
• Seisen arrived at Konoha Hospital and used his Byakugan to identify several critical injuries, sending patients for immediate treatment.
• Hyuga Ayane told Seisen that the hospital was overwhelmed, with surgeries booked for three days and many patients at risk of dying.
• Ayane led Seisen to Internal Medicine Ward Three to treat a young man whose crushed leg was bleeding heavily.

Hyuga Seisen used the Mystical Palm Technique and his Byakugan to repair a young man's shattered femur, then began treating the hospital's overwhelmed wards. He left the first patient resting and continued through the orthopedic ward, identifying overlooked injuries and correcting earlier treatment.

• Hyuga Seisen removed three bone fragments from a young man's femoral artery, repaired the vessel, and healed the man's fractured leg in minutes.
• Hyuga Ayane kept the patient from sitting up, and Seisen told him to rest for three days before walking.
• Seisen and Hyuga Ayane went through the crowded hospital wards to treat the waiting patients.
• The head nurse recalled that Seisen had started as an intern five years earlier and earned the nickname little workhorse.
• Seisen found misaligned fractures, loosened fixation, and infection in the orthopedic ward, then ordered treatment and began repairing the most severe case.
• Seisen discovered two bone fragments that the resident had missed and used the Byakugan and Mystical Palm Technique to reset and fuse the patient's fourteen femur fragments.

Hyuga Seisen reunited with Hattori Yoshiko and Ishida Yuki at Konoha Hospital and demonstrated his extraordinary skill by rapidly operating on a girl with severe leg fractures. Before he could finish, a jonin brought in a teenage boy with a ruptured heart, and Seisen saw that the boy could still be saved.

• Hattori Yoshiko recognized Seisen and pulled him toward orthopedics, where she and Ishida Yuki were overwhelmed with difficult cases.
• An elderly nurse told Hyuga Ayane that Seisen had once cleared the hospital team's workload in half a day, leaving Ayane newly aware of his medical reputation.
• Seisen began operating on a seven-year-old girl with twenty-three bone fragments in her legs and promised to complete the surgery in half an hour.
• A bloodied Konoha jonin burst into the operating room carrying a teenage boy whose heart had been exposed and badly wounded by Fire Release.
• Seisen examined the boy and found his heart was still beating, then ordered the jonin to bring him in.

Hyuga Seisen saved a boy with catastrophic heart injuries, then faced a corridor full of patients needing urgent surgery. When he tried to borrow chakra from the Nine-Tails to make Shadow Clones, he discovered the Stone Gate was draining the beast directly.

• Hyuga Seisen used the Mystical Palm Technique and precise surgery to repair the boy’s ruptured pericardium and ventricular wall, saving his life.
• Seisen left the operating room and found nurses bringing him a stream of critically injured patients, while Hattori Yoshiko objected to piling every case on him.
• Seisen decided to use Shadow Clones and asked the Nine-Tails for chakra.
• Seisen entered the sealed space and saw that the Nine-Tails had shrunk and grown listless as the Stone Gate siphoned its chakra.

Seisen used his stored chakra and Sage Mode to create six Shadow Clones and treat the growing number of wounded while the Nine-Tails recovered from the Stone Gate draining its chakra. At Root's base, Danzō and Aburame Ryoma continued removing and destroying records, and Danzō concluded that Minato was deliberately giving them time.

• Seisen declined to take more chakra from the exhausted Nine-Tails and left the sealing space.
• Seisen released the Yin Seal and Sage Reserve Seal, entered Sage Mode, and created six Shadow Clones to treat patients in multiple operating rooms.
• Hattori Yoshiko watched Seisen and his clones work as the wounded continued to arrive.
• The Nine-Tails saw the six clones through the sealing formula, mocked their number, and quietly curled its tail.
• Danzō asked Aburame Ryoma about Root's records, and Ryoma reported that the first-class archives had been destroyed while other materials were being moved.
• Danzō told Ryoma that Minato had not sent anyone to take over Root because he was giving them time.