Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Wuye received intelligence from Uchiha Mikoto and teased her about secretly collecting dossiers for him. After he arranged to meet with Mikoto’s clan leaders, Kushina caught him embracing Mikoto and demanded that Mikoto come clean.

• Hyuga Wuye thanked Uchiha Mikoto for copying a dossier about another Root agent and realized she had gathered other intelligence for him as well.
• Mikoto invited Wuye to her home, and he agreed after she briefly held his hand; he asked her to notify her clan head and the Great Elder that he wanted to speak with them.
• Wuye embraced Mikoto in public, and Kushina appeared with a threatening voice, making Mikoto leap away from him.
• Wuye revealed that his clone had called Kushina over, and Kushina hugged Mikoto while teasing her about the embrace.
• Wuye and Kushina told Mikoto to come clean, and Mikoto awkwardly claimed she had been forced into it.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina visited Kakashi after his father Sakumo was condemned by villagers for choosing to save his comrades during a mission. Wuye realized Sakumo might be driven to despair and rushed to find him at Konoha Hospital, with Kakashi following.

• Wuye asked Kushina to accompany him to Sakumo's home, and the two walked there holding hands.
• Kakashi confided in Pakkun that villagers had called Sakumo trash for abandoning the mission to save his comrades.
• Wuye told Kakashi that those who failed to cherish their comrades were worse than trash, then clarified that no one else had the right to judge Sakumo's choice.
• Wuye warned that Sakumo might doubt his beliefs after facing the village's condemnation, and Kakashi revealed that his father had gone to Konoha Hospital.
• Wuye took Kushina to the hospital to find Sakumo, while Kakashi hurried after them.

Hyuga Wuye confronted the two comrades Hatake Sakumo had rescued and used genjutsu to expose that they condemned Sakumo out of fear, despite being grateful to him. Sakumo broke down crying, and Wuye stayed with Kakashi as his father grieved, leaving the family’s future open.

• Hatake Sakumo left the hospital room after his rescued comrades accused him of causing the village’s losses.
• Hyuga Wuye scolded the two patients, then used genjutsu to reveal they had condemned Sakumo to avoid being excluded and blamed.
• The patients admitted they were grateful to Hatake Sakumo and considered him the best captain, and Sakumo collapsed in tears.
• Hyuga Wuye told Kakashi to let his father vent, then joked that he had saved Kakashi’s mother and delivered him.
• Hyuga Wuye removed Kakashi’s mask, and Kakashi snatched it back and put it on again.

Hyuga Wuye challenged Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi to rethink the conflict between ninja rules and the Will of Fire after Sakumo chose to abandon a mission to save his comrades. The chapter ended with Sakumo asking Wuye to become Kakashi’s disciple, while Kakashi hesitated despite beginning to take Wuye’s advice seriously.

• Hyuga Wuye teased Kakashi with a copy of Make-Out Paradise until Hatake Sakumo took it away.
• Hatake Sakumo said he would resign as a jonin, accept whatever leniency his merits earned, and stay home with Mifu and Kakashi.
• Hyuga Wuye argued that the village’s Will of Fire conflicted with its ninja regulations, helping Sakumo realize the dilemma was rooted in the village’s own divided values.
• Wuye told Kakashi that greater strength could help him avoid regret, joking that he could use a Shadow Clone to handle a mission and save comrades at once.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Wuye to take Kakashi as his disciple, explaining that Wuye could teach him how to be a good ninja and handle complicated matters.

Hyuga Wuye helped Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi plan how to challenge the village’s campaign against Sakumo, then learned that the Uchiha had begun cooperating with Danzo. The chapter ended with Wuye questioning Fugaku about the risky arrangement.

• Wuye rejected the idea that Sakumo’s achievements could erase his alleged wrongdoing and said the blame had to be made ambiguous before his merits could matter.
• Wuye accused Danzo of stirring up opposition against Sakumo with the Third Hokage’s tacit approval, and Kakashi suggested the village needed a scapegoat for the lost war.
• Wuye told Kakashi to use transformed Shadow Clones to raise questions among villagers about choosing between mission rules and saving comrades, especially asking whether they would prioritize a mission over rescuing a wife or mother.
• Wuye and Kushina visited Uchiha Mikoto, where Fugaku and Yuxiong revealed that the Uchiha had agreed to turn a blind eye to Danzo’s activities in exchange for village intelligence.
• Wuye warned that Danzo might exploit the Uchiha, but Fugaku said the clan had leverage over him.

Hyuga Wuye reassured Uchiha Mikoto after Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong left, then shared a suggestive dinner with Mikoto and Kushina as the women debated who would sleep between them. Elsewhere, Orochimaru concealed his laboratory before the Third Hokage visited and asked him to fight in the coming war, but Orochimaru refused.

• Uchiha Fugaku warned Hyuga Wuye that Uchiha girls did not marry out, and Hyuga Wuye replied that the clan’s rules were what kept Mikoto from him.
• Hyuga Wuye told Uchiha Mikoto not to worry about Danzo’s plans and said the coming Third Shinobi World War would temporarily unite the village.
• Kushina joined Hyuga Wuye and Uchiha Mikoto for dinner, where Wuye flirted with both women and later watched them argue over who would sleep in the middle bed.
• Orochimaru sealed off his hidden laboratory, which held rows of incubation tanks containing infants, before the Third Hokage arrived.
• The Third Hokage asked Orochimaru to join the battlefield for the coming Third Shinobi World War, and Orochimaru refused.

The Third persuaded Orochimaru to summon Hyuga Wuye to assist with an experiment, hoping the order might also give him a reason to suppress Wuye if he refused. That night, Kaguya slipped into bed beside Wuye, and he began kissing her while Kushina and Mikoto slept nearby.

• Orochimaru refused the Third's request to return to the battlefield and criticized him for having so few shinobi he could rely on.
• The Third explained that Jiraiya and Tsunade were unavailable, Hatake Sakumo could not fight, and Wuye's growing prestige troubled him.
• Orochimaru asked the Third to order Wuye to assist with his experiments, and the Third agreed on the condition that Orochimaru avoid anything excessive.
• Kaguya entered Mikoto's room at night, joined Wuye beneath the blanket, and settled into his embrace.
• Wuye kissed Kaguya as she lay between him and Kushina, while Mikoto slept nearby.

Hyuga Wuye used genjutsu to keep Kushina from discovering his intimate moment with Kaguya, but the Nine-Tails caught him in the sealing space and demanded a story. While Wuye was distracted, Mikoto joined him in bed, and she and Kaguya silently accepted each other’s presence.

• Kaguya kissed Wuye, but Kushina woke after they turned over and saw them together.
• Wuye cast genjutsu on Kushina, and the Nine-Tails began to stir her awake from inside her sealing space.
• Wuye entered the sealing space and persuaded the Nine-Tails not to expose his genjutsu by promising to tell it a story.
• Wuye told the Nine-Tails a story about a demon fox being split in half, prompting Kurama to interrupt and protest.
• Kaguya settled into Wuye’s embrace as Kushina slept under the genjutsu, and Mikoto slipped beneath the blanket beside him.
• Kaguya and Mikoto noticed each other, then silently lay back down on either side of Wuye.

Wuye woke to find himself in bed between Kushina and Mikoto, with Kaguya draped over him, after the women had apparently fallen asleep together. When Kushina learned that Wuye had used genjutsu on her the night before, she confronted him while the Nine-Tails gleefully stirred up trouble.

• Wuye woke surrounded by Kushina, Mikoto, and Kaguya, who had all ended up in bed together.
• Mikoto tried to slip away, but sparrows woke Kushina before she could escape unnoticed.
• Kushina questioned Kaguya about climbing onto Wuye, and Mikoto pointed out that Kaguya had broken into her home.
• Kaguya dressed and left through the window, while Kushina wondered why she could not remember the previous night.
• The Nine-Tails told Kushina that Wuye had used genjutsu on her, and Wuye angrily accused the fox of betraying him.
• Kushina pressed Wuye about the genjutsu and silenced both him and the Nine-Tails when they started shouting.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina made peace after he apologized for using genjutsu, then confronted Kurama in the sealing space. Kurama agreed to sever one tail and give its chakra to them, and Kushina transformed into Golden Body Mode.

• Hyuga Wuye pinned Kushina down, apologized for using genjutsu, and persuaded her to forgive him while Mikoto made the bed nearby.
• Hyuga Wuye and Kushina visited Kurama in the sealing space and teased him about being mischievous and whether he would befriend a child who accepted him.
• Kurama offered to lend them chakra, then severed one tail and said its chakra would be separate from him and safe from corruption.
• Kushina reached for the floating chakra phantom, which gathered around her and transformed her into Golden Body Mode.
• Kushina felt the strength of Hyuga Wuye's goodwill toward her as she admired her golden flames.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina tested the Nine-Tails’ chakra and discovered that Wuye could use Nine-Tails Chakra Mode with Kushina’s help. They discussed using the mode to attempt a dangerous sealing technique that might let Wuye store the chakra inside his own body.

• Kushina explained that her ability to sense good intentions came from her Uzumaki lineage and was stimulated by the Nine-Tails’ chakra, then helped Wuye enter Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Wuye and Kushina left the sealing space and tested his new chakra cloak, which let him form chakra arms and greatly improve his protection, chakra control, and speed.
• Wuye used a chakra arm to pull Uchiha Mikoto close, then demonstrated his enhanced speed in the courtyard and said the chakra would last about three days before dissipating.
• Kushina asked whether Wuye could keep the Nine-Tails’ chakra inside his body, and he proposed using the Reverse Four Symbols Seal while the chakra cloak improved their control.

Hyuga Wuye tested a new sealing technique that stored tailed-beast chakra in a mark on his forehead, then returned Kurama’s chakra to Kushina and encouraged her to continue training. As Wuye secretly held Mikoto’s hand, Kurama exposed them, and Mikoto confessed that she had fallen for her best friend’s man.

• Hyuga Wuye successfully stored his Golden Body Mode chakra in a new forehead seal inspired by the Yin Seal.
• Wuye and Kushina discussed splitting Kurama’s chakra and life force, giving them a new research topic.
• Wuye returned Kurama’s chakra to Kushina and told her to practice wind- or water-nature chakra transformation after learning the Rasengan.
• Uchiha Mikoto arrived to remind Wuye to help Hatake Sakumo, and Wuye secretly held her hand while embracing Kushina.
• Kurama revealed Wuye and Mikoto’s secret hand-holding, prompting Mikoto to confess that she had fallen for her best friend’s man.

Hyuga Wuye helped turn Konoha’s opinion in Hatake Sakumo’s favor, forcing the Third Hokage to limit Sakumo’s punishment. After recovering from the strain of releasing over a thousand Shadow Clones, Wuye met the young Shisui at Uchiha Mikoto’s home.

• Konoha’s debate over Hatake Sakumo’s choices spread through the village, and criticism of him faltered when people imagined their own loved ones in danger.
• The Third Hokage told Danzo to stop his attempt to steer the conflict, while Danzo blamed the Hokage’s promotion of the Will of Fire and stormed out.
• Uchiha Mikoto apologized to Kushina for becoming involved with Hyuga Wuye, and Wuye explained that they had learned they would be together in the future.
• Hyuga Wuye suffered as more than a thousand Shadow Clones released their memories and exhaustion, then told Kushina that Sakumo had lost his jonin title and temporarily had his ninja status suspended.
• Shisui called for Uchiha Mikoto, and Wuye wondered whether to brainwash the young Uchiha before his Sharingan awakened.

Hyuga Wuye met Uchiha Shisui, who had recently been brought into the Uchiha Clan, and left with Kushina after Mikoto teased them about who would spend the night with him. Later, Mikoto and Shisui discussed the worsening divide between the Uchiha and the village with their uncle, who warned that Wuye had no loyalty to the clan and might become a threat if he became Hokage.

• Shisui told Mikoto that Fugaku had brought an illegitimate son into the clan, then discussed the divide between the Uchiha and the village.
• Wuye and Kushina arrived, and Mikoto introduced Wuye to Shisui while reminding him of his clan connections.
• Mikoto teased Kushina about spending the night with Wuye, and Wuye took Kushina away after Mikoto said she had something to do.
• Shisui and Mikoto met their uncle in a secret chamber, where he questioned Shisui about the Uchiha Clan's prospects for integrating into the village.
• Mikoto suggested helping Wuye become Hokage, but their uncle warned that Wuye had no Uchiha allegiance and could oppose the clan.
• Shisui urged Mikoto to influence Wuye, leaving her feeling caught between him and the Uchiha.

Hyuga Wuye welcomed Minato Namikaze and his team, teasing Kakashi before giving him and Rin Nohara scrolls to support their training. He then questioned Obito Uchiha about whether he had awakened the Sharingan, and Obito insisted that he would.

• Minato Namikaze visited Hyuga Wuye with Kakashi, Rin Nohara, and Obito Uchiha after their mission, and Wuye teased Kakashi about his birth until Kakashi attacked him.
• Wuye dodged Kakashi's blade, seized his wrist, and tossed him into the mansion before inviting the team to eat.
• Minato Namikaze told Kakashi that Wuye could help with his lightning-nature research, and Wuye gave Kakashi a scroll of lightning-nature records and clan research.
• Wuye gave Rin Nohara basic medical ninjutsu manuals, remembering her talent and his role as her instructor.
• Wuye asked Obito Uchiha whether he had awakened the Sharingan, and Obito answered that he would awaken it.

Hyuga Wuye helped Obito Uchiha awaken his Sharingan by using an illusion in which Rin Nohara was killed, then explained that the Third Hokage was keeping him and the Hyuga Clan off the battlefield. Minato Namikaze realized the Hokage was using him in Wuye’s place and questioned the village’s wartime priorities.

• Hyuga Wuye offered to help Obito Uchiha awaken his Sharingan, and Obito accepted.
• Hyuga Wuye trapped Obito in an illusion of Rin Nohara being stabbed to death, prompting Obito to awaken a one-tomoe Sharingan.
• Hyuga Wuye explained that the illusion used Obito’s pain at seeing Rin die, and Rin reassured Obito that they were the best of comrades.
• Minato Namikaze thanked Hyuga Wuye for helping the young ninja and asked when he and Kushina would join the battlefield.
• Hyuga Wuye told Minato that the Third Hokage was keeping him off the front lines and that he had refused to let the Hyuga Clan be sent to fight without him.
• Minato Namikaze realized the Third Hokage was using him to replace Wuye and was left speechless by Wuye’s criticism of the Hokage’s hypocrisy.

Hyuga Wuye reflected on the brutal choices leaders had to make as Minato Namikaze struggled with the politics of war. After Konoha was besieged on several fronts and Minato faced danger, Wuye received orders to assist Orochimaru with secret weapons research and began considering open defiance.

• Hyuga Wuye explained to Minato Namikaze that a leader had to make ruthless decisions, leaving Minato and the others shaken.
• Minato asked Wuye to help him handle the village’s darker affairs, and Wuye agreed.
• After six months without being summoned by the Third, Wuye watched the Kannabi Bridge mission unfold; Obito Uchiha was presumed killed, and Kakashi received his Sharingan.
• Minato fought A and Killer B, then faced the Third Raikage as the Sand and Mist joined the assault, pushing Konoha into an unprecedented crisis.
• The Third ordered Wuye to assist Orochimaru in developing secret weapons, and Wuye suspected it was time to flip the table.

Hyuga Wuye exposed Orochimaru’s human experiments after surviving his attack, while Uchiha Mikoto chose to bring crucial war intelligence to Wuye before the village. The chapter ended with Wuye confronting the Third Hokage in public and accusing him of sending Wuye to be experimented on.

• Hyuga Wuye told Orochimaru that he had spent three days gathering evidence of the experiments, and Orochimaru attacked him with Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hands.
• Uchiha Mikoto revealed that she planned to give Wuye vital intelligence before deciding whether to submit it to the village, despite Uchiha Shisui and her uncle urging her to report it immediately.
• Uchiha Mikoto emerged from the underground as an explosion shook Konoha, and villagers speculated about Wuye and his dispute with the Third Hokage.
• Hyuga Wuye stood amid the ruins of Orochimaru’s laboratory, where exposed culture tanks held infants, as the Third Hokage arrived.
• Hyuga Wuye accused the Third Hokage of sending him to undergo human experimentation, and the crowd erupted in shock.

Hyuga Wuye confronted Orochimaru over human experiments on missing children, then fought off Orochimaru’s escape and clashed with the Third Hokage. The chapter ended with Wuye openly declaring that he no longer believed the Third Hokage was qualified to lead Konoha.

• The crowd recognized missing children in Orochimaru’s cultivation tanks, and the Third Hokage struggled to respond as Orochimaru told him he was old.
• Orochimaru unleashed the Ten Thousand Snakes Formation and tried to escape, but Hyuga Wuye summoned a Slug to intercept the snakes.
• Wuye used genjutsu and a Chakra Scalpel against Orochimaru, but the Third Hokage and another elder attacked him with Earth Dragon Flame Flow.
• Wuye countered with a Super Massive Rasengan that destroyed Orochimaru’s clone, then struck the Third Hokage’s Enma staff with a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
• After the Third Hokage challenged Wuye for acting without orders, Wuye said he did not believe the Third Hokage was still a qualified Hokage.

Hyuga Wuye publicly accused the Third Hokage of weakening Konoha and keeping elite clan ninja from the battlefield, then rallied them to demand a chance to fight. He asked for command of the front lines and vowed to die on the battlefield if he failed to lead Konoha to victory.

• Hyuga Wuye challenged the Third Hokage's fitness to lead and accused him of suppressing veteran clans and driving away powerful ninja.
• The Third Hokage defended his decisions, while Wuye blamed his leadership for Konoha's poor response to the Third Shinobi World War.
• Wuye claimed the Hokage was keeping elite clan ninja out of the village to prevent them from convening the jonin council and removing him.
• Wuye denounced the Hokage for prioritizing internal politics as the four great shinobi villages invaded the Land of Fire.
• Hyuga Clan ninja and other elite ninja stepped forward to demand permission to fight for Konoha.
• Wuye asked the Third Hokage for command of the front lines and vowed to die in battle if he could not secure victory.