Chapter Summaries

Kushina confronted Hyuga Wuye about his closeness with Uchiha Mikoto, then admitted she loved him too much to ask for details and decided to wait for Mikoto to confess. After a romantic delay, Wuye went to meet the Third Hokage and hinted that an important figure had sent him a message about the arrested villagers.

• Kushina dismissed Uchiha Mikoto and took Hyuga Wuye aside to question him about their relationship.
• Hyuga Wuye tried to explain the Dragon Vein mission, but Kushina stopped him and said she would wait for Mikoto to confess her feelings herself.
• Hyuga Wuye wondered whether his future with Mikoto was both the cause and result of learning about that future, then kissed Kushina.
• The Third Hokage waited for Hyuga Wuye, who arrived late after spending time with Kushina.
• Hyuga Wuye told the Third Hokage that a ninja had relayed a message from an important figure connected to the arrested villagers, and the Hokage asked what it said.

Hyuga Wuye convinced the Third Hokage that Danzo was trying to turn them against each other, then faced a new attack when the Police Force was ordered to investigate his clan. After thanking Uchiha Mikoto for warning him, Wuye went to handle the investigation, while Mikoto’s private happiness was interrupted by Kushina.

• Hyuga Wuye claimed that a Root member had said Danzo’s organization acted under the Hokage’s orders, prompting the Third Hokage to suspect Danzo of undermining him.
• The Third Hokage retrieved evidence that the Shimura Clan had embezzled village property and decided Danzo needed a warning.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Wuye that a punished ninja had complained about the Hyuga Clan withholding mission rewards, and that the Police Force had been ordered to investigate.
• Wuye blamed Danzo for the order and the three Uchiha jonin’s involvement, thanked Mikoto, and left to deal with his clan’s affairs.
• Mikoto delighted in Wuye’s gentle gesture of tucking her hair behind her ear until Kushina arrived and interrupted her reverie.

Hyuga Wuye rushed to convene a clan meeting after learning that the Hyuga Clan faced an investigation over withheld mission rewards. With Kaguya lending him the patriarch’s token, he confronted Hyuga Hiashi and the clan’s former main family members, and the meeting ended with clansmen accusing Hyuga Naoya of exploiting the branch family.

• Hyuga Wuye returned to the clan and urged Kaguya to call an immediate meeting; she handed him the patriarch’s token and accompanied him to the hall.
• Kaguya announced that Wuye would preside over the meeting on her behalf, despite Hyuga Naoya’s objection.
• Wuye revealed that a ninja had reported the clan for withholding mission rewards and that the Uchiha Police Force was preparing to investigate.
• Hyuga Hiashi admitted ordering increased deductions, accepted responsibility, and insisted the rule applied to all clan members.
• Wuye asked whether the extra deductions had targeted former branch family members, and Hiashi denied it, saying he had paid twenty percent himself.
• After Wuye demanded answers about secret oppression of the branch family, clan members accused Hyuga Naoya of withholding the main family’s share and using the Caged Bird to silence them.

Hyuga Wuye stripped Hyuga Naoya of his position as Great Elder and offered him to the Konoha Police Force as the culprit behind the exploitation of former branch family members. While treating Naoya, Wuye privately proposed a plan that left the old man demanding he keep his word.

• Hyuga Naoya admitted imposing the clan’s old traditions and moved to control the branch family, but Hyuga Wuye stopped him and knocked him down with one punch.
• Hyuga Wuye declared Naoya removed as Great Elder and said the Hyuga Clan would hand him over to the Konoha Police Force for the exploitation scandal.
• Uchiha jonin arrived to investigate the Hyuga Clan, and Hyuga Wuye mocked them before pointing out that Naoya was already being surrendered as the culprit.
• Hyuga Wuye treated Naoya’s injuries and argued that the clan and its members should support each other rather than exploit one another.
• Hyuga Wuye whispered a plan to Naoya, who grabbed his sleeve and insisted that Wuye keep his promise.

Hyuga Wuye was appointed to investigate the Uchiha Clan’s embezzlement and recover village funds, while Danzo hoped the assignment would spark conflict between the Uchiha and Hyuga clans. As Wuye approached the Uchiha compound with Uchiha Mikoto, he warned that confrontation was likely and began explaining how he could prevent the scandal from driving the clan apart from Konoha.

• Hyuga Naoya took sole responsibility for the Hyuga Clan’s violations, and the Third Hokage ordered the clan to repay withheld mission rewards and exiled Naoya to the border.
• Danzo urged the Third Hokage to have Hyuga Wuye confront the Uchiha Clan, hoping to intensify conflict between the clans, and the Third Hokage agreed.
• News broke that the Uchiha Clan had falsified the Konoha Police Force roster and embezzled hundreds of millions of ryo from the village over several decades.
• The Third Hokage appointed Hyuga Wuye to investigate the Uchiha scandal and recover village assets because the police force was largely made up of Uchiha.
• As Wuye headed for the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Mikoto insisted on accompanying him, and he warned her that the Uchiha might refuse to admit fault and that a fight could follow.

Hyuga Wuye sent Uchiha Mikoto to tell Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong how he planned to turn the village’s accusations into sympathy for the Uchiha. The clan leaders agreed to cooperate with his broader proposal, but Fugaku refused to help with the current plan, leaving Wuye to proceed without the clan’s support.

• Hyuga Wuye sent Uchiha Mikoto ahead to brief Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong while he led a crowd toward the Uchiha compound at a deliberate pace.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong struggled to decide how to respond to the village’s accountability demands without angering their clan members.
• Uchiha Mikoto told the leaders that Hyuga Wuye intended to make the village sympathize with the Uchiha and had a plan to replace the clan’s lost Police Force income.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong agreed to cooperate with Wuye’s broader effort to help the clans and prevent village infighting.
• Uchiha Fugaku rejected cooperation with Wuye’s immediate plan, while Uchiha Yuxiong recognized that Fugaku’s anger stemmed from Mikoto’s affection for Wuye.

Hyuga Wuye confronted the Uchiha Clan over its embezzlement of village property and fought the Uchiha ninjas who refused to surrender. After the battle fell silent, the Third Hokage arrived and was shocked by how powerful Wuye had become.

• Hyuga Wuye found more than a hundred Uchiha ninjas guarding the clan compound and demanded that they submit to the law.
• Hyuga Wuye summoned Slug and warned the Uchiha that she would be treating their wounded after he fought them.
• The Uchiha ninjas attacked with shuriken and Fire Release, while Hyuga Wuye countered with a Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique and a massive Water Wall.
• Hyuga Wuye charged into the mist and fought the Uchiha as explosions and battle cries echoed around the compound.
• The Third Hokage arrived after the fighting quieted and remarked that Hyuga Wuye had surpassed the limits of a jonin.

Hyuga Wuye defeated the Uchiha ninja and demanded repayment for village assets, while Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong used the clan’s humiliation to gain sympathy. The Third Hokage granted the Uchiha a year to repay their debt, then asked Wuye whether he dared to confront the other clans as well.

• Hyuga Wuye stood amid the Uchiha ruins after defeating over a hundred Uchiha ninja, leaving the clan stunned.
• Uchiha Fugaku offered an apology and proposed repaying the village assets over time, but Wuye demanded immediate repayment with interest.
• The Third Hokage realized the Uchiha’s apparent defeat had won them sympathy and abandoned the plan to isolate them.
• The Third Hokage gave the Uchiha one year to repay the money, and Fugaku and Yuxiong accepted.
• The Third Hokage led Wuye away and asked whether he dared to go after the other clans as he had the Uchiha.

Hyuga Wuye resigned from the Konoha Police Force after clearing Tsunade’s name, while the Third Hokage tried to recruit him into a campaign against Konoha’s clans. The Third Hokage revealed that Danzo’s subordinates had smeared Tsunade and maneuvered Wuye into targeting the clans, leaving Wuye secretly pleased that the elders were being set against each other.

• Hyuga Wuye told the Third Hokage he wanted to resign from the Konoha Police Force so he could take missions outside the village and search for Tsunade, and the Third Hokage agreed.
• The Third Hokage admitted that Danzo’s subordinates had spread rumors to smear Tsunade, but Hyuga Wuye calmly said he would keep investigating.
• The Third Hokage reflected that Hyuga Wuye’s strength had made him harder to control and then accused the Shimura Clan of embezzling village assets during the war.
• Hyuga Wuye offered to blockade the Shimura Clan’s gates, but the Third Hokage told him to deal with the other clans first and encourage them to report the Shimura Clan.
• Hyuga Wuye agreed to target the other clans and secured the Third Hokage’s promise to provide records of the Shimura Clan’s crimes afterward.

Hyuga Wuye met Kushina after damaging the Uchiha Clan’s territory, and Uchiha Mikoto arrived while Kushina questioned why he had helped the clan. Kushina then confronted Mikoto about her feelings for Wuye, while he left them alone and headed back to the Hyuga estate.

• Hyuga Wuye found Kushina, who said she was going to comfort Mikoto over the damage to the Uchiha Clan’s territory.
• Wuye told Kushina that the Uchiha Clan would thank him, and Mikoto arrived shortly afterward.
• Mikoto explained that returning the hundreds of millions of ryo to the village was right and that rebuilding would cost less than the interest the clan had gained.
• Kushina suspected Wuye had helped the Uchiha Clan because of someone, and Mikoto grew convinced that he had acted for her sake.
• Kushina asked Mikoto whether she had fallen for Wuye, then sent him away so they could talk privately.
• Wuye returned to the Hyuga estate, and Mikoto remarked that Kushina had guarded against everything except her best friend.

Hyuga Wuye led the Uchiha Police Force in simultaneous raids on more than thirty clans, using shadow clones to speed up the arrests and secretly approaching clans whose mission quotas had been cut. By afternoon, he reported the operation to the Third Hokage, who was stunned by its scale.

• Hyuga Wuye confronted the Uchiha Police Force and made its members acknowledge that their clan had been at fault.
• Hyuga Wuye presented thirty or forty case files from the Third Hokage and ordered the Uchiha ninjas to arrest the clans named in them.
• Hyuga Wuye created more than a hundred shadow clones and assigned them to accompany the Uchiha teams, enabling the raids to happen simultaneously.
• Hyuga Wuye used the operation to secretly reach out to clans whose mission quotas had been reduced.
• Hyuga Wuye returned to the Hokage Building, where the Third Hokage reacted with shock when he heard that more than thirty clans had been dealt with in under a day.

Hyuga Wuye received the Shimura Clan case file and led the Konoha Police Force to surround the clan over wartime supply theft. The operation drew a crowd and left the Shimura Clan facing Wuye and the Uchiha ninja at their gates.

• The Third Hokage gave Hyuga Wuye the Shimura Clan case file while wondering whether Wuye had deliberately rushed his earlier clan investigations to force the issue.
• Hyuga Wuye returned to the Konoha Police Force and announced that the Shimura Clan had withheld military supplies during the Second Shinobi World War.
• Hyuga Wuye ordered the Uchiha ninja to move out and surround the Shimura Clan, and they followed him eagerly.
• The Konoha Police Force marched through Konoha as clans and civilians followed, intensifying the village's already tense atmosphere.
• The Uchiha ninja sealed off the expansive Shimura grounds and mocked the clan's apparent wealth.
• Shimura Clan members challenged the encirclement, then lost their nerve when they recognized Hyuga Wuye and the Uchiha insignia.

Danzo learned that the Shimura Clan had been exposed for embezzling military supplies and suspected Sarutobi was targeting him. Hyuga Wuye confronted the surrounded clan, and Danzo agreed to hand over the thirty ninja named in the evidence.

• A Root ninja told Danzo that the Konoha Police Force had surrounded the Shimura Clan compound over allegations of embezzling military supplies.
• Danzo deduced that Sarutobi had exposed the Shimura Clan to weaken his influence and left with a concealed dossier.
• Hyuga Wuye announced that the Shimura Clan was surrounded and called for the accused ninja to surrender, stirring panic among the clan members.
• Danzo arrived and challenged Hyuga Wuye, who handed him a scroll listing the accused ninja.
• Danzo recognized the names from his own investigation and ordered the thirty ninja to come out and accept punishment.

Hyuga Wuye confronted Danzo over the Shimura Clan’s crimes and demanded compensation, then used hidden Shadow Clones to provoke a clash between the clan and the Konoha Police Force. The Third Hokage arrived and halted the fighting, leaving him to investigate the conflict as Danzo and Wuye watched each other.

• Hyuga Wuye demanded that Danzo make the Shimura Clan pay one billion ryo in compensation, and Danzo agreed.
• Angry Shimura clansmen protested, and two hidden Shadow Clones attacked the Uchiha ninja, prompting Wuye to declare the clan in rebellion and order the Konoha Police Force to suppress them.
• Wuye’s Shadow Clones unleashed destructive ninjutsu on the Shimura compound while Danzo held back, fearing his secrets would be exposed.
• The Third Hokage arrived and used Wind Release: Airflow Dance to stop the fighting.
• The Third Hokage questioned why the Konoha Police Force and Shimura Clan had clashed as Danzo inwardly resolved to implicate him too.

Hyuga Wuye presented the Third Hokage with a proposal backed by more than one-third of Konoha’s jonin, forcing it to a council vote and challenging the Hokage’s control over mission assignments. The Third Hokage responded by threatening to target only the Hyuga and Uchiha Clans, a shift in policy Wuye had not anticipated.

• Hyuga Wuye revealed that more than one-third of the jonin had signed his proposal, requiring the Third Hokage to bring it before the jonin council.
• The Third Hokage read the proposal to make mission assignments more transparent and let shinobi choose suitable missions, while requiring public accounting for A-rank and S-rank assignments.
• Hyuga Wuye explained that he had spent a month rallying clan shinobi, using the Police Force’s operations as an opportunity to organize their opposition.
• The Third Hokage warned Hyuga Wuye that the clans supported him only because they had been suppressed, then threatened to stop targeting other clans and focus on the Hyuga and Uchiha instead.
• Hyuga Wuye realized that Sarutobi Shinsuke’s influence had changed the Third Hokage’s policy in a way he had not accounted for.

Hyuga Wuye visited the Uchiha compound with Kushina after she showed him how quickly she had mastered his chakra training. They arrived at Mikoto's home, where her stunning appearance caught Wuye's attention and drew a pointed question from Kushina.

• Kushina showed Wuye that she had completed all three stages of his training in just over a month, and he praised and kissed her.
• Kushina playfully accused Wuye of taking advantage of her while he carried her toward the Uchiha compound.
• Uchiha clansmen confronted Wuye with hostility, but he walked through the rebuilt compound with Kushina and said he had come to admire the young women.
• Wuye knocked on Mikoto's door, and she welcomed him and Kushina while wearing a beautiful pink kimono.
• Kushina asked Wuye whether Mikoto looked good as he stared at her.

Hyuga Wuye visited Uchiha Mikoto with Kushina, who received a dark red kimono. While helping Kushina change, Wuye embraced and kissed her, but she threw him out when Mikoto called them to dinner, leaving Mikoto catching him outside the changing room.

• Wuye and Kushina entered Mikoto's home, where Kushina teased him for admiring Mikoto's appearance.
• Mikoto gave Kushina a dark red kimono she had ordered when she had her own made.
• Wuye followed Kushina into the changing room and helped her undress before embracing and kissing her.
• Mikoto called them to dinner, and Kushina realized how much of her clothing had come off.
• Kushina threw Wuye out of the changing room, and Mikoto caught him and urged him to get up before Kushina came out.

Hyuga Wuye shared a meal with Uchiha Mikoto and Kushina after admiring them in their kimonos, then secretly touched both women beneath the table. A knock at the door interrupted the intimate moment, and Wuye went to answer it while Mikoto and Kushina realized they both looked flustered.

• Uchiha Mikoto kissed Hyuga Wuye on the cheek when Kushina began to open the door.
• Kushina emerged in a crimson kimono, and Wuye praised her before Mikoto joined them.
• Mikoto and Kushina served and ate a meal, and Kushina praised Mikoto's cooking.
• Wuye teased Mikoto's foot beneath the table and placed his hand on Kushina's thigh while the two women ate.
• A knock interrupted Wuye, who withdrew his hand and foot and went to answer the door.
• Mikoto and Kushina exchanged glances and noticed that both were blushing with moist eyes.

Hyuga Wuye met with Uchiha Fugaku and Great Elder Yuxiong to plan for the Third Hokage’s shift in mission assignments and the coming jōnin vote. After identifying a way the Hokage could manipulate who attended the vote, they agreed to win over as many jōnin as possible.

• Hyuga Wuye told Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong that the Third Hokage planned to shift missions toward clan ninja while continuing to reduce the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans’ share.
• Wuye asked whether the Uchiha Clan had more compromising files that could help secure jōnin votes, and Fugaku said they might sway two or three.
• Wuye argued that civilian ninja would resent losing the missions they had gained, while clan ninja who supported the proposal would distrust the Hokage’s sudden change in policy.
• Fugaku realized the Hokage could send opposing jōnin out of the village before the council vote, and Wuye urged the clans to win over as many jōnin as possible.
• Fugaku left, and Wuye told him not to come to Mikoto’s house without a reason.

Hyuga Wuye rejected Uchiha Yuxiong’s offer to marry Mikoto into the Uchiha Clan and instead persuaded him to form an alliance supporting Wuye’s bid to become Hokage. After Yuxiong encouraged Mikoto to pursue Wuye, Kushina appeared and caught them together.

• Uchiha Yuxiong proposed that Wuye return to the Uchiha Clan and marry Mikoto, but Wuye refused to take the Uchiha name or leave the Hyuga Clan.
• Wuye argued that multiple marriages should be encouraged and explained that the Hyuga Clan had better political prospects than the Uchiha Clan.
• Wuye told Yuxiong that he could help end the Uchiha Clan’s suppression by becoming Hokage, and Yuxiong agreed to ally with him personally.
• Yuxiong urged Mikoto to keep working hard with Wuye, and Mikoto blushed as he left.
• Wuye poked Mikoto’s cheek before Kushina appeared in the doorway with a menacing expression.