Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Seisen joined Yuhi Shinku’s team with Uchiha Tetsuka and Yuhi Kurenai for a mission in the Land of Wind. When the team began its first bandit-clearing assignment, Seisen revealed his skill with ninja tools and impressed Tetsuka.

• Orochimaru told Danzo that shed hair could only provide an inference about Ghost Spider’s genes, and Danzo ordered him to focus instead on researching Hyuga Seisen’s genes.
• At Konoha’s gates, Yuhi Shinku introduced Hyuga Seisen as a temporary teammate to Uchiha Tetsuka and Yuhi Kurenai, and Seisen said he was a medical ninja.
• Yuhi Shinku explained that the team would clear two bandit dens, then travel through the Land of Tea to escort someone into the Land of Wind while gathering intelligence.
• Uchiha Tetsuka assigned himself to lead the attack on Snake Bone Stronghold and asked Seisen to support from the rear, while Seisen agreed and used his Byakugan to scout.
• Seisen threw six shuriken through the foliage, striking six hidden sentries and surprising Tetsuka with his precision.

Hyuga Seisen and his teammates stormed the mountain stronghold, defeated the bandits, and freed the prisoners. He discovered a surviving boy whose parents had been killed and who blamed the rescuers, leaving Seisen to realize that the boy had become another threat.

• Hyuga Seisen coordinated Yuhi Kurenai and Uchiha Tekka as they infiltrated the stronghold and attacked the bandits gathered for training.
• Uchiha Tekka burned many bandits with Fire Release while Yuhi Kurenai supported him with genjutsu, and the three fought the remaining attackers.
• Hyuga Seisen killed the fleeing bandit leader and healed Uchiha Tekka and Yuhi Kurenai before the team searched the caves for prisoners.
• Hyuga Seisen found a wounded teenage boy beside his dead parents and freed him from his cell.
• The boy blamed Hyuga Seisen for arriving too late, attacked him, and made Seisen realize that one bandit was still left.

Hyuga Seisen’s team completed missions against bandits and escorted their client toward the Land of Wind while disguising themselves as non-Konoha shinobi. At the Land of Tea’s capital, Fujiwara Kiyoshi objected to the young ninja assigned to guard him.

• Hyuga Seisen killed a disguised bandit, and the team regrouped with the rescued captives before Yuhi Shinku praised their work.
• Hyuga Seisen received a reward, teased Yuhi Kurenai about being his girlfriend, and supported Uchiha Tetsuka and Yuhi Kurenai during another bandit fight.
• Yuhi Shinku had the team conceal their Konoha identities before they entered the Land of Tea and explained the need to adapt their methods on missions.
• Yuhi Shinku met Fujiwara Kiyoshi outside the capital and introduced Hyuga Seisen, Uchiha Tetsuka, and Yuhi Kurenai as the escort team.
• Fujiwara Kiyoshi complained that the young ninja were not worthy of the one hundred thousand ryo he had paid for guards.

Hyuga Seisen and the others completed their escort mission to the Land of Wind, then gathered market and town price information for their next assignment. While Seisen investigated the border city, its gates were ordered closed to catch a Konoha spy, and he began using the Hidden Mist Technique to slip away.

• Uchiha Tetsuka knocked down Fujiwara Kiyoshi’s guards, then fought bandits alongside Yuhi Kurenai while Hyuga Seisen protected Fujiwara Kiyoshi and caught a kunai aimed at him.
• Hyuga Seisen healed Tetsuka and Kurenai, and the team defeated two more roadblocks before escorting Fujiwara Kiyoshi safely to a Land of Wind trading post.
• Yuhi Shinku assigned the four teammates to gather trade and price intelligence around the border city and nearby towns.
• Hyuga Seisen disguised himself as a merchant and then an ordinary shopper, finding that residents bought only small amounts of food and were struggling economically.
• After Seisen returned to the market, he heard that the city gates were being sealed to catch a Konoha spy and hurried toward the exit.
• Feng Ya ordered the gates closed, but Seisen spread mist across the area until Feng Ya recognized the Hidden Mist Technique.

Hyuga Seisen escaped his pursuers by using a Sacred Arrow to kill Gauze Garment. Drought Rock abandoned the pursuit and carried her body back, while Hyuga Seisen continued toward the meeting point.

• Feng Ya ordered Drought Rock and Gauze Garment to pursue Hyuga Seisen after he slipped out through the city gate.
• Hyuga Seisen spotted the pursuers and recognized Gauze Garment's chakra-thread-controlled puppet as he took detours to shake them off.
• Hyuga Seisen secretly summoned the Spirit Bow and prepared a Sacred Arrow while tracking his pursuers with the Byakugan.
• Hyuga Seisen shot past the puppet and pierced a large tree, striking Gauze Garment in the head and killing her.
• Drought Rock hid behind a tree, then stopped pursuing Hyuga Seisen and carried Gauze Garment back for burial.

Yuhi Shinku and Yuhi Kurenai tried to ambush the pursuers chasing Uchiha Tetsuka, but the pursuers were lifelike puppets immune to genjutsu. Poisoned and injured, the father and daughter were captured, and Feng Ya threatened Kurenai to make Shinku reveal how many people remained in their team.

• Yuhi Shinku and Yuhi Kurenai sprang from hiding and used genjutsu on the two masked pursuers, but it had no effect because they were puppets.
• Feng Ya and Feng Xin fired poisoned senbon from their palms, and Yuhi Shinku shielded Kurenai and Uchiha Tetsuka, taking the needles in his back.
• Yuhi Kurenai broke some of Feng Ya's chakra threads with a kunai, but the puppet reconnected them and kicked her into a tree.
• Feng Ya stomped on the poisoned Yuhi Shinku and demanded to know how many companions remained, while Feng Xin stopped Kurenai from circling around to attack the puppeteers.
• Feng Ya pinned Kurenai beneath his foot and extended a blade from his palm, demanding that Yuhi Shinku answer.

Hyuga Seisen arrived with a Spirit Bow and destroyed Feng Ya’s puppet just as Feng Ya was about to hurt Yuhi Kurenai again. He then faced Feng Xin’s remaining puppet, but his arrow missed as it charged toward him.

• Feng Ya stabbed Yuhi Kurenai in the thigh and threatened to attack her again when Yuhi Shinku refused to answer.
• Yuhi Kurenai, losing consciousness, imagined Hyuga Seisen rescuing her with a Spirit Bow and regretted rejecting his confession.
• Hyuga Seisen fired a blue arrow that blasted Feng Ya’s puppet into fragments, freeing Yuhi Kurenai and shocking Yuhi Shinku and Uchiha Tetsuka.
• Feng Ya told Feng Xin to hold Hyuga Seisen off while he went to attack him personally.
• Hyuga Seisen aimed at Feng Xin’s remaining puppet and fired, but it dodged the arrow and charged at him with a spinning saw blade.

Hyuga Seisen killed Feng Xin and Feng Ya after they attacked his injured companions, then returned to treat Yuhi Kurenai. He stopped her bleeding and cleared the toxins from her wound, but left its healing incomplete so he could treat the other two.

• Hyuga Seisen used his bow to kill Feng Xin from a distance, causing Feng Xin's puppet to collapse before it could strike him.
• Feng Ya rushed in with two guardian puppets, but Hyuga Seisen shattered them and pursued him through the forest.
• Hyuga Seisen shot off Feng Ya's lower leg and thigh before killing him with an arrow through the abdomen.
• Hyuga Seisen returned to Yuhi Kurenai, stopped the bleeding in her thigh, and forced the toxins from the wound.
• Hyuga Seisen began healing Yuhi Kurenai's wound, then stopped once it was no longer bleeding so he could treat the other two injured companions.

Hyuga Seisen treated Yuhi Kurenai, Yuhi Shinku, and Uchiha Tetsuka after they were wounded, then bandaged Kurenai’s cracked ribs despite her embarrassment. He detected Hidden Sand Village ninja searching the woods nearby, leaving the group in danger.

• Hyuga Seisen stopped the bleeding and treated Yuhi Shinku and Uchiha Tetsuka, who fell asleep once their wounds were stable.
• Hyuga Seisen finished healing Yuhi Kurenai’s leg and explained that he needed to secure her cracked ribs with bandages.
• Yuhi Kurenai objected to Hyuga Seisen undoing her clothes, but eventually let him bandage her ribs after he washed his hands with Water Style: Water Formation Wall.
• Yuhi Kurenai ran away in distress after Hyuga Seisen finished, leaving him confused about what he had done wrong.
• Hyuga Seisen sensed chakra flows in the distance and spotted Hidden Sand Village ninja searching the woods in a formation.

Hyuga Seisen led the wounded group through a desperate escape as nearly fifty Hidden Sand Village shinobi pursued them, tracked by a ninja hawk. He brought Yuhi Shinku, Yuhi Kurenai, and Uchiha Tetsuka into a canyon dead end, where the pursuers closed in and forced them to face the enemy.

• Hyuga Seisen spotted enemy search parties closing in from three directions and warned Yuhi Kurenai, Yuhi Shinku, and Uchiha Tetsuka that they were surrounded.
• Yuhi Shinku proposed retreating toward the Land of Fire, but a ninja hawk spotted them and the group fled with Hyuga Seisen leading the way.
• Hyuga Seisen tried to shoot down the hawk with his Chakra Spirit Bow, but his arrow only grazed it and the bird continued tracking them.
• Hyuga Seisen rejected Yuhi Shinku’s suggestion to use the forest for sniping and led the group toward a canyon where he could gather the pursuers together.
• Despite Yuhi Shinku’s warning that the canyon was a dead end, Hyuga Seisen led the group nearly two kilometers inside, where they turned to face the closing Hidden Sand Village shinobi.

Hyuga Seisen used his Spirit Bow to slaughter the Hidden Sand Village force pursuing the four Konoha ninja through a narrow canyon. After replenishing some of his strength, he told the others to return.

• The enemy leader taunted Yuhi Shinku, Hyuga Seisen, Yuhi Kurenai, and Uchiha Tetsuka and ordered them to surrender their intelligence.
• Hyuga Seisen stepped forward and summoned a massive Spirit Bow as the enemy force charged.
• Hyuga Seisen unleashed Sacred Arrow: Scattershot, killing the enemy leader and sweeping the charging force with a barrage of chakra arrows.
• The surviving Hidden Sand Village ninja tried to flee through the canyon or climb its walls, but Hyuga Seisen shot them down.
• Hyuga Seisen swallowed a soldier pill to restore some strength and told Yuhi Shinku, Yuhi Kurenai, and Uchiha Tetsuka to head back.

After returning from the battle, Hyuga Seisen spent his rewards to fully fuse with his Quincy imprint and unlocked two new racial skills. He tested Sacred Arrow: Demon-Breaking in camp and formed a highly compressed arrow.

• Hyuga Seisen and his companions gathered supplies and intelligence from the wreckage, then fled toward the Land of Fire and camped in a secluded forest clearing.
• Hyuga Seisen examined his Stone Gate rewards and gained Yin Release and Fire Release, along with Mastery-level puppet and chakra-thread techniques.
• Hyuga Seisen spent Energy Crystals to raise his Quincy fusion rate to 100%, unlocking Sacred Arrow: Demon-Breaking and Hirenkyaku.
• Hyuga Seisen explained his experiment to Yuhi Shinku and the others, checked the area with his Byakugan, and formed a compressed Demon-Breaking Arrow.
• Hyuga Seisen drew his bowstring and released the new arrow.

Hyuga Seisen tested his newly developed Hirenkyaku, a movement technique that let him change direction freely and move at extreme speed. After explaining its basic principle, he rested with his companions, who began preparing for the next day’s journey.

• Hyuga Seisen fired a highly condensed arrow more than fifteen hundred meters, stunning Yuhi Shinku and Uchiha Tetsuka.
• Hyuga Seisen used Hirenkyaku to flicker through the forest, leaving afterimages and changing direction in midair without leverage.
• Yuhi Shinku, Uchiha Tetsuka, and Yuhi Kurenai watched in disbelief as Hyuga Seisen returned to his original position.
• Hyuga Seisen explained that Hirenkyaku used controlled energy beneath his feet for instant movement and direction changes.
• After the three companions said they felt well enough to move, Hyuga Seisen rested while Yuhi Shinku planned their route and Yuhi Kurenai watched him.

Yuhi Kurenai wrestled with her feelings for Hyuga Seisen as their team tried to escape the Land of Wind. They crossed the border amid Kumogakure’s attack on Sunagakure, and learned that the Third Kazekage might have disappeared.

• Yuhi Kurenai thought about Hyuga Seisen’s abilities and dreamed that he reached for her while holding another girl’s hand.
• Hyuga Seisen led Yuhi Shinku, Uchiha Tetsuka, and Yuhi Kurenai toward the northern border, but they hid when he spotted Sunagakure’s dense patrols.
• Kumogakure forces led by the future Fourth Raikage A attacked a Land of Wind border outpost, drawing Sunagakure’s patrols away.
• Hyuga Seisen’s team seized the opening and crossed the Land of Wind’s border.
• Yuhi Shinku told Hyuga Seisen that Sunagakure had been searching for the missing Third Kazekage, and said they needed to report the attack to the Hokage.

After returning to the Land of Fire, Hyuga Seisen used chakra threads to catch fish and controlled Fire Release to prepare a campfire, impressing his companions. As they ate, he considered the coming battles of the Third Shinobi World War and the little time he had left.

• Yuhi Shinku warned the group that Konoha was still far away and they needed to resume traveling after resting.
• Hyuga Seisen used chakra threads to catch fish from a nearby river, surprising Yuhi Shinku, Yuhi Kurenai, and Uchiha Tetsuka.
• Uchiha Tetsuka burned his hand and scattered the firewood while struggling to start a fire with Fire Release.
• Hyuga Seisen lit the woodpile with precise Fire Release, and Yuhi Kurenai cooked fish for the group.
• Yuhi Kurenai thanked Hyuga Seisen for the mission, while he recalled the coming clashes and realized there was little time left before students would be sent to war.

Yuhi Shinku reported Kumogakure’s attack on Sunagakure and described how Hyuga Seisen had defeated nearly fifty pursuers. Hiruzen Sarutobi heard the report, considered Shinku’s request to assign Seisen to his squad, and called an urgent meeting about the conflict.

• Yuhi Shinku reached Konoha and went straight to Hiruzen Sarutobi to report Kumogakure’s surprise attack on the Land of Wind.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi identified the Lightning Release leader as the Fourth Raikage A and confirmed that the Kazekage was missing.
• Yuhi Shinku recounted how Hyuga Seisen led their group through the investigation and used a canyon and his kekkei genkai to wipe out nearly fifty pursuers.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi was astonished by Seisen’s feat, and Yuhi Shinku praised Seisen’s abilities and asked for him to join their squad.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said he would consider the request, then summoned the three elders and senior officials, including Shikaku Nara, to an immediate meeting.

Hyuga Seisen agreed to join Hyuga Kaze on a bandit-suppression mission and declined Yuhi Kurenai’s invitation to dinner, prompting an awkward flirtation. The next morning, Kurenai joined the mission after Seisen and his father pretended they needed a third teammate.

• Hyuga Kaze asked Hyuga Seisen to accompany him on a C-rank bandit-suppression mission, and Seisen agreed.
• Yuhi Kurenai invited Seisen to dinner, but he said he had a mission; they blushed and teased each other before she ran off.
• Hyuga Seisen trained with Might Guy and found that his senjutsu chakra could not fully restore him after heavier training.
• Yuhi Kurenai waited outside as Seisen and Hyuga Kaze set out, and Seisen convinced her to join by claiming their mission needed a third person.
• Yuhi Kurenai pinched Seisen at the waist after he asked about her ribs and accused him of taking advantage of her.

Hyuga Seisen experimented with Fire Style Sacred Arrow while traveling with Hyuga Kaze and Yuhi Kurenai, then helped raid a bandit stronghold. The bandit leader sent up a signal flare before Seisen could finish him, leaving the trio unsure who might respond.

• Yuhi Kurenai confronted Hyuga Seisen about his earlier treatment and learned the difference between the Healing Technique and the Mystical Palm Technique.
• Hyuga Seisen tested a Fire Style Sacred Arrow, which set a tree ablaze, and realized he might create an explosion by inscribing an explosive-tag formula onto an arrow.
• Hyuga Kaze used his Byakugan to scout a stronghold, and the three planned their attack with Kurenai using genjutsu, Kaze charging in, and Seisen providing support.
• Kurenai incapacitated the guards and sentries while Hyuga Kaze killed most of the bandits and Seisen shot down those who tried to escape.
• Hyuga Seisen shot through the stronghold wall at the remaining leader, who released a signal flare; the trio searched the area for whoever might answer it.

Hyuga Seisen left the summit to draw away the bounty hunters pursuing his family. As Hino Kisuke bragged about capturing Hyuga, an unseen attack suddenly struck him.

• Hyuga Seisen spotted roughly ten enemies approaching from three directions and volunteered to lure them away from Hyuga Kaze and Kurenai.
• Hyuga Kaze watched in disbelief as Seisen used a rapid Body Flicker Technique to disappear into the forest.
• Akiyama Shugo warned Hino Kisuke that their target was a Hyuga, but Hino and Mizutani Yuhachi reassured him that their team had captured Hyuga before.
• Hino Kisuke explained that the bounty hunters aimed to drain Hyuga captives of chakra and boasted about escaping a Hyuga squad during the Second Shinobi World War.
• As Hino Kisuke continued his story, an unseen blow struck him and sent him flying backward.

Hyuga Seisen used his archery to kill several members of Mizutani Yuhachi's squad, then continued attacking after Inada Takuma arrived with reinforcements. On the mountaintop, Hyuga Kaze watched with pride and growing concern as the enemy groups converged on his son.

• Hyuga Seisen shot Hino Kisuke and another ninja through the chest, prompting Akiyama Shugo and the surviving squad members to flee.
• Mizutani Yuhachi stopped the fleeing ninja and tried to rally them, but Hyuga Seisen killed more men with precise arrows.
• Hyuga Kaze watched Hyuga Seisen kill five enemies in a minute and worried as the other enemy groups converged.
• Inada Takuma arrived with about twenty ninja, and Mizutani Yuhachi explained that a master archer was attacking from the southeast.
• Hyuga Seisen shot another ninja in the chest as Inada Takuma's group advanced, and Inada ordered everyone to press forward.