Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Wuye prepared Konoha’s forces for the war and received intelligence and Nine-Tails chakra that strengthened his plans. As he organized the Hyuga Clan for the Land of Water front, Kaguya declared that she would personally command the battle.

• Danzo urged the Third Hokage to join forces and reclaim the credit for ending the war, and the Third agreed to Danzo’s plan.
• Uchiha Mikoto gave Wuye important intelligence, and he praised her for bringing it.
• Kushina delivered another tail’s worth of Nine-Tails chakra to Wuye and told him that she and Mikoto would wait for his return.
• Mikoto insisted on joining the Land of Water battlefield, so Wuye asked Kushina to equip her with a combat ninja tool scroll set.
• Wuye found Kaguya in the meeting hall, where she announced that she would personally command the Hyuga Clan and stop Kirigakure shinobi from crossing the border.

Hyuga Wuye forbade Kaguya from returning to the battlefield and promised to protect her, while Old Madara prepared a plan to drive Obito Uchiha into despair. At the Lightning front, Wuye took command and sent Minato Namikaze to deliver intelligence to Onoki, intending to face the Third Raikage, his son, and the Eight-Tails alone.

• Hyuga Wuye refused to let Kaguya return to the battlefield, and she agreed not to exhaust herself with her power even if the border fell.
• Old Madara confirmed that his plan was ready and that it was designed to make Obito Uchiha fall into despair.
• Minato Namikaze brought Hyuga Wuye to the Lightning front and explained that the Third Raikage, his son, and the Eight-Tails were threatening Konoha's forces.
• Hyuga Wuye showed Minato his appointment as commander of all fronts and explained how the Eight-Tails had adapted its attacks to counter Minato's teleportation.
• Hyuga Wuye gave Minato intelligence to deliver to Onoki and said he would face the Third Raikage, his son, and the Eight-Tails himself.

Hyuga Wuye asked Slug to find Kushina and learn the chakra ratios used to create a Tailed Beast Bomb. Slug transformed into a human to travel faster, returned the Nine-Tails’ answer, and left Wuye considering how to control the difficult proportions.

• Hyuga Wuye asked Slug to find Kushina and ask what Yin and Yang chakra proportions made up a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Slug’s split body crawled slowly, so she transformed into a human to run faster.
• Wuye touched and fussed over Slug’s new form while she explained that she did not understand human emotions or expressions.
• Slug reported that the Nine-Tails gave a Yin-to-Yang ratio of two to eight and a tailed-beast-to-user chakra ratio of nineteen to one.
• Wuye worked out the resulting chakra proportions and worried that controlling them in Golden Body Mode would be difficult.
• Slug warned Wuye that her body contained corrosive fluid, prompting him to protest that he had only been touching her because she felt nice.

Hyuga Wuye led Konoha’s counteroffensive against the Cloud Village while disguised as Minato Namikaze, then revealed himself and used a Tailed Beast Shuriken to blast the Eight-Tails. He ended the battle’s turning point by injuring the Raikage father and son as Konoha’s ninja rallied behind him.

• Hyuga Wuye spotted a massive Cloud Village deployment and led several thousand Konoha ninja into battle.
• Hyuga Wuye and two Shadow Clones attacked the Third Raikage, his son, and Killer B with Big Ball Rasengans, but the Cloud ninja countered their Flying Thunder God kunai and pressed the attack.
• Hyuga Wuye’s Rasengan strikes disrupted the Raikage father and son, while his Shadow Clone used Adamantine Sealing Chains to restrain the Eight-Tails.
• Hyuga Wuye’s disguise vanished, and he used chakra chains and a Tailed Beast Shuriken to force the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb back into its mouth.
• Hyuga Wuye fired two Wind Release: Rasenshuriken through the smoke, wounding A and forcing the Third Raikage to shield the heavily injured Killer B.
• Hyuga Wuye landed and announced his arrival, inspiring the Konoha ninja.

Hyuga Wuye led Konoha in driving Kumogakure back, then prepared for its renewed assault a month later. When Killer B and the Raikage father and son attacked again, Wuye held the central battlefield while Konoha’s medical support helped turn the tide, leaving the battle ongoing as he waited for news from Minato Namikaze.

• Hyuga Wuye and the Konoha ninja routed Kumogakure, forcing its forces back to the Land of Rice Fields and establishing a stalemate at the Land of Fire border.
• News of Wuye’s victory spread through the ninja world, celebrations erupted in Konoha, and the Sand and Mist fronts paused their attacks.
• After a month of preparation, Wuye’s traps struck Kumogakure’s renewed assault, but Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bombs blasted a path through the defenses.
• Wuye confronted Killer B and the Third Raikage while using his chakra cloak, Shadow Clones, and Adamantine Sealing Chains to hold them off.
• Wuye’s Slug split bodies treated Konoha’s wounded across the battlefield as Kumogakure began to falter, while Wuye continued to wait for Minato Namikaze’s news.

Hyuga Wuye forced the Third Raikage to withdraw after news arrived that Iwagakure had invaded the Land of Lightning, setting the stage for the Raikage to face Onoki’s forces. Minato Namikaze then introduced Wuye to Minako, the red-haired woman who had helped him deliver the border map to Onoki.

• A Cloud Village ninja reported that over ten thousand Iwagakure ninja had breached the Land of Lightning’s border, and the Third Raikage withdrew with his forces.
• Hyuga Wuye ordered the Konoha ninja not to pursue and explained that Minato Namikaze had delivered the Land of Lightning’s defensive map to Onoki.
• Minato Namikaze arrived and told Wuye that he had earned an Iwagakure squad’s trust with help from a woman he had rescued in the Land of Grass.
• Minato took Wuye to a dilapidated house and introduced him to Minako, whose red hair left Wuye staring in surprise.

Hyuga Wuye supported Minato Namikaze’s decision to rescue Minako, an Uzumaki woman abused as a living blood supply, and urged him to accept the consequences of defying Konoha’s wartime rules. After Minato took Minako to safety, Wuye returned to the front and launched a massive shadow-clone harassment operation against the Cloud Village.

• Minato told Hyuga Wuye that Grass Ninja Village had exploited Minako’s healing constitution and asked to make an exception to Konoha’s wartime rules to save her.
• Wuye supported Minato’s choice while warning him to accept the consequences, and explained that he hoped to reform the village’s rules for admitting outsiders.
• Minato decided to take Minako to the Land of Fire and find her a safe place until the war ended, and he told Wuye he would help revise Konoha’s system.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return Wuye to the front lines, where Wuye sent several thousand shadow clones to harass the Cloud Village.

After Kirigakure launched a decisive coastal offensive, Uchiha Mikoto urged her clan to join the battle, but Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong let the Uchiha stand aside rather than serve under Hyuga Kaguya. The chapter ended with Yuxiong leaving to check on Mikoto, while he and Fugaku acknowledged the burdens facing the clan.

• News spread that the Third Raikage had died after holding off Iwagakure's forces, shifting the balance of the war and leaving the major fronts in a stalemate.
• Kirigakure committed most of its forces under the Third Mizukage and attacked the Land of Fire's coastline in a decisive battle.
• Uchiha Mikoto confronted Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yuxiong because the Uchiha ninja had not gone to the front lines.
• Fugaku and Yuxiong explained that the clan resisted taking orders directly from Hyuga Kaguya and intended to let the Hyuga bear the brunt of the fighting.
• Mikoto warned that standing aside would undermine Wuye's goodwill, but Fugaku said Wuye's support did not make him part of the Uchiha clan.
• Yuxiong praised Fugaku's leadership, cautioned him about the burdens ahead, and left to check on Mikoto.

Uchiha Mikoto rescued Hyuga Naoya from Ao, but Uchiha Yuxiong died fighting the Kaguya Clan chief, and Uchiha Fugaku awakened a new eye power. After learning that Ao had stolen Naoya’s Byakugan, Kaguya set out to take it back.

• Uchiha Mikoto intervened as Ao tried to take Hyuga Naoya’s remaining Byakugan, then retreated with Naoya while a bone-spiked Mist ninja wounded her.
• Uchiha Yuxiong arrived to protect Mikoto, stayed to fight the Kaguya Clan chief, and died from his bone spikes.
• Uchiha Fugaku reached the battlefield, awakened a strange new Sharingan pattern, and killed the Kaguya Clan chief.
• Kaguya arrived after driving back the Third Mizukage’s forces, found the battlefield’s survivors and corpses, and went to the field hospital.
• Hyuga Naoya told Kaguya that Ao had taken one of his Byakugan, and Kaguya promised to take it back.

After learning that the Land of Water battle had cost Uchiha Yuxiong his life and left Hyuga Naoya severely injured, Hyuga Wuye rushed to the coast and then went after Hyuga Kaguya. At Kirigakure Village, Kaguya faced hundreds of Mist ninja and unleashed a devastating punch after the Third Mizukage tried to capture her.

• Hyuga Wuye learned of the heavy losses on the Land of Water battlefield, arranged for Minato Namikaze to hold the front line, and traveled to the coast.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Hyuga Wuye what had happened, and he immediately set off after Hyuga Kaguya.
• Hyuga Naoya explained to Uchiha Mikoto that he wanted the Byakugan preserved as the Hyuga Clan's shared strength, while Mikoto questioned his reasoning.
• Hyuga Kaguya confronted the Third Mizukage and hundreds of Mist ninja at Kirigakure Village, demanding that they return the Byakugan.
• The Third Mizukage ordered his ninja to capture Kaguya alive and used the Water Mirror Technique, but Kaguya's punch created a vast vacuum zone before the village gates.

Kaguya reclaimed Hyuga Naoya’s Byakugan from Kirigakure Village, but the strain left her near death and White Zetsu attacked her. Hyuga Wuye rescued her and brought her back to the coastal outpost, where he confronted Naoya about how he had lost his eye.

• Kaguya demanded her Byakugan from Ao after her attack destroyed most of the Mist ninja, including the Third Mizukage.
• White Zetsu stabbed Kaguya, but Hyuga Wuye arrived, drove it underground with a Tailed Beast Shuriken, and healed her wound.
• Kaguya remained unconscious after overusing her power, so Wuye carried her away from Kirigakure Village.
• Several days later, Wuye restored Hyuga Naoya’s Byakugan at the coastal border outpost.
• Wuye grabbed Naoya and demanded to know why he had lost his eye.

Hyuga Wuye confronted the Uchiha over their refusal to follow his sister’s orders, then received intelligence about Kirigakure Village’s attack on Konoha. He realized the Seven Ninja Swordsmen were a feint and that Kirigakure’s real plan involved Rin Nohara releasing the Three-Tails inside the village.

• Hyuga Wuye beat Hyuga Naoya and left him behind after Naoya asked whether Wuye would keep his promise.
• Hyuga Wuye smashed into the Uchiha encampment, accused the clan of fighting passively, and seized Uchiha Fugaku by the throat.
• Uchiha Mikoto pleaded for Wuye to spare the clan, and Fugaku offered to free her from the clan’s marriage rules.
• A jonin delivered emergency intelligence that Kirigakure Village had sent the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to attack Konoha.
• Hyuga Wuye recalled that Kirigakure’s real plan was to have Rin Nohara release the Three-Tails inside Konoha.

Hyuga Wuye returned to Konoha after learning Kaguya was gravely ill, then ambushed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen near the village. He killed two of them while Might Duy and his team wondered why the village had sent him to save them.

• Wuye left Kaguya with Mikoto and returned to Konoha, where Kushina gave him the chakra Kurama had recovered.
• Wuye learned from Kushina that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen were near the village and set off to confront them.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen discussed their plan and dismissed warnings about Wuye before he surprised them with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
• Wuye killed Jinin Akebino and Jinpachi Munashi, reducing the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to five.
• Might Duy reunited with Might Guy, Genma Shiranui, and Ebisu after Wuye intervened, and the team questioned why the Anbu had sent Duy to save them.

Kakashi persuaded Rin to keep living and return to Konoha, while the Three-Tails attacked the village. Hyuga Wuye arrived in time to divert its Tailed Beast Bomb and then sent Shadow Clones to confront it.

• Rin told Kakashi that the Three-Tails had been sealed inside her and begged him to kill her, but Kakashi urged her to trust Konoha and fight to live.
• White Zetsu watched Kakashi and Rin flee and wondered how to arrange Rin's death and notify Madara.
• Hyuga Wuye cornered Fuguki Suikazan after Raiga Kurosuki and Jūzō Biwa fled, but he turned toward Konoha when an explosion sounded.
• Kushina told Hyuga Wuye that the Three-Tails had appeared outside Konoha, and Wuye hurried to the village.
• The Third Hokage fought the Three-Tails as villagers evacuated, but its Tailed Beast Bomb flew toward Hokage Rock.
• Hyuga Wuye used a Tailed Beast Shuriken to redirect the bomb, reassured the villagers, and sent two Shadow Clones to face the Three-Tails.

Hyuga Wuye sealed the Three-Tails inside himself as a usable chakra source, then clashed with the Third Hokage over who should lead Konoha. He reached Kakashi and Rin Nohara just as Rin lunged onto Kakashi’s Lightning Cutter, and pulled them apart, leaving Obito Uchiha and White Zetsu’s plan disrupted.

• Hyuga Wuye flipped the Three-Tails onto its back, restrained it, and sealed it inside his forehead with an Eight Trigrams Seal.
• Hyuga Wuye told the Third Hokage that he was not a jinchuriki and argued that the Hokage should hand him the position; the Third Hokage refused.
• Hyuga Wuye and the Third Hokage disagreed over whether peace came through strength and battle or compromise and governance, then parted ways.
• Hyuga Wuye found Kakashi and Rin Nohara in the forest, where Kakashi was exhausted from repeatedly using Lightning Cutter to hold off Mist Village ninja.
• Rin Nohara lunged into Kakashi’s Lightning Cutter, but Hyuga Wuye intervened and pulled them apart as Obito Uchiha and White Zetsu watched.

Hyuga Wuye rescued Rin Nohara from the Mist ninja and discovered a control talisman inside her heart that made saving her nearly impossible. As Kakashi and Rin went to watch the sunset, Obito followed in secret; afterward, Wuye returned to Kaguya, who promised she would not truly leave him.

• Hyuga Wuye rescued Kakashi and Rin Nohara, then used his Byakugan to find a control talisman at the center of Rin's heart.
• Hyuga Wuye told Kakashi that removing the talisman would require destroying Rin's heart, while Obito Uchiha overheard and learned she was marked.
• Obito wanted to reveal himself or take Rin away, but White Zetsu warned him that either choice was dangerous.
• Rin asked Kakashi to take her to see the sunset, and Kakashi walked with her while Obito followed in secret.
• Hyuga Wuye returned to Kaguya, embraced her as she woke, and heard her promise that she would not truly die or leave him.

Hyuga Wuye learned that Kaguya’s soul was being drawn away and that she needed her original body, so he vowed to find a way to save her. As they watched the sunset, Kaguya and Wuye shared their first kiss.

• Hyuga Wuye carried Kaguya to the shore, where Uchiha Mikoto apologized for the Uchiha Clan’s role in Kaguya’s condition and Kaguya reassured her.
• Kaguya told Wuye that using her awakened power consumed her life force, made her body feel чужд, and left her soul wanting to depart, but she had to stay until a time she was waiting for.
• Wuye concluded that Kaguya needed her original body and resolved to prepare to break the seal on the moon, despite the difficulty of obtaining the Rinnegan.
• Wuye promised to find Kaguya again and save her, and she told him she would wait for him.
• Kaguya and Wuye kissed by the sea as Wuye’s eye power began to strengthen.

Hyuga Wuye discovered another Sharingan tomoe while holding the weakened Kaguya, then learned that Sand, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure had launched simultaneous attacks. He prepared to confront Sand Village and openly told his allies he hoped to replace the Third Hokage and enact their long-discussed reforms.

• As Kaguya slept against him, Wuye created a Shadow Clone, which discovered a second, one-tomoe Sharingan hidden behind his three-tomoe Sharingan.
• Wuye received urgent reports that two thousand Sand Village ninja had reached Kikyo Mountain and that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had attacked at the same time.
• Nara Shikaku concluded that Iwagakure and Kumogakure were seeking better peace terms, while Wuye suspected Sand Village believed Konoha was weakened.
• Wuye ordered most ninja to rest, trusted Minato to contain the other attacks, and said he would deal with Sand Village himself.
• Wuye told Shikaku that their plans for reform could soon begin, then openly asked the gathered ninja to support him against the Third Hokage when the time came.

Hyuga Wuye returned to Kikyo Mountain and fought the Sand Village forces led by Rasa and Pakura, healing Konoha’s survivors and using the Three-Tails’ chakra to strengthen himself. He overwhelmed the battlefield with Shadow Clones, until an elderly Sand Village ninja summoned Shukaku to block his attack.

• Hyuga Wuye arrived at Kikyo Mountain, summoned a Slug to heal hundreds of Konoha ninja, and faced Rasa and Pakura.
• Rasa attacked with gold dust while Pakura used Scorch Release, but Wuye countered them with Ultra-Big Ball Rasengans.
• Wuye entered his sealing space, intimidated the Three-Tails, and pulled out its chakra to gain a purple Chakra Mode.
• Wuye created two thousand Shadow Clones and declared that the Sand Village ninja were surrounded by him.
• Rasa and Pakura tried to reach Wuye’s real body, while an elderly Sand Village ninja summoned Shukaku onto the battlefield.

Hyuga Wuye defeated and sealed Shukaku after Sand Village abandoned Pakura and Bunpuku freed the One-Tail at the cost of his life. With the battle at Kikyo Mountain won, Wuye ordered his forces to prepare for a counterattack in three days.

• Shukaku attacked Wuye’s shadow clones while Rasa ordered the Sand Village forces to retreat, leaving Pakura behind.
• Wuye captured Pakura, sealed her chakra, and left her with the Konoha ninja.
• Bunpuku released Shukaku from its seal and died, giving the One-Tail its freedom.
• Wuye and two shadow clones beat Shukaku, bound it with chakra chains, and sealed it beside Isobu.
• Konoha celebrated its victory at Kikyo Mountain, and Wuye ordered the ninja to clean up before joining a counterattack in three days.