Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Wuye declared May 21st Konoha Wedding Day and said he would marry Kushina on that date, while using the occasion to promote intermarriage among the clans. As Kushina prepared for the wedding, she learned that Tsunade, under the name Princess Kazumiya, would be her bridesmaid along with Wuye’s other women.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi asked Kaguya whether they could marry together, and Wuye proposed a village-wide Konoha Wedding Day.
• Wuye set May 21st as the wedding date, despite Terumi Mei objecting that it was her birthday, and announced that he would marry Kushina first and Mikoto later.
• Terumi Mei asked Wuye to take responsibility for keeping her by his side, then attacked him when he refused.
• Over the next three months, Wuye’s administration held matchmaking gatherings while emphasizing that couples should marry by mutual affection.
• Kushina began preparing her wedding and was stunned to learn that Princess Kazumiya would serve as her bridesmaid.
• Mikoto told Kushina that Tsunade, Kaguya, herself, and Terumi Mei would also be bridesmaids.

On Konoha’s first Wedding Day, Wuye officiated the weddings of eighty-eight couples while Tsunade and the other women bickered before the ceremony. He gave the newlyweds special medicine as a wedding gift, then realized his gifts might have caused Hanabi and Hinata to be fraternal twins.

• Tsunade teased Kushina, Mikoto, and Terumi Mei, provoking Terumi Mei and nearly starting a fight.
• Kaguya stopped the argument and told Tsunade to call her sister if she wanted to marry Wuye.
• Wuye asked Tsunade whether she had prepared enough medicine for the eighty-eight couples, and she gave him a scroll of doses.
• Wuye officiated the couples’ weddings until evening and gave special medicine to the newlyweds.
• After giving extra doses to Hyuga Hiashi and Minato Namikaze, Wuye realized his medicine might have caused Hanabi and Hinata to be fraternal twins.

After their wedding, Wuye helped Kushina adjust to being recognized as his wife and reassured her that she could keep the Uzumaki name. The chapter ended with the newlyweds hurrying home after Kushina suggested they have a child.

• Wuye and Kushina celebrated their wedding as Konoha cheered and visited the major clans and their friends.
• Kushina wondered whether their marriage was real, and Wuye took her through the festive streets so she could experience the village's respect for her as Lady Kushina.
• Wuye carried Kushina home to the Hyuga Clan head's residence, where clan members welcomed them.
• Kushina asked whether she could keep the Uzumaki name and pass it to a child, and Wuye agreed, adding that Minato's child could bear the name too.
• Kushina suggested that she and Wuye have a child, and Wuye carried her toward their room, laughing that it was time to make a baby.

On her wedding night with Wuye, Kushina was interrupted by Terumi Mei, Uchiha Mikoto, Tsunade, and Kaguya, who had secretly gathered to watch. Kushina drove off the other women and reclaimed her evening with Wuye, proudly telling Kaguya she had handled it.

• Wuye and Kushina kissed after her bath, but Terumi Mei interrupted them at the door.
• Wuye used his Byakugan to discover Uchiha Mikoto, Kaguya, and Tsunade hiding around the bed.
• Kushina confronted the intruders, then used her golden chakra hand to toss Terumi Mei into her room.
• Kushina tried to send Uchiha Mikoto away, but Mikoto blushed and fled when Kushina suggested she join them.
• Kushina embarrassed Tsunade by proposing that Wuye demonstrate how to please her while Kushina watched, and Tsunade fled.
• Kushina turned to Kaguya with a proud smile and said she had handled it.

As Wuye and Kushina spent their wedding night together, Kaguya sensed that her soul was being drawn toward a possible next life and worried that she would lose her memories. Wuye comforted Kushina and apologized for how deeply he had hurt her when they were young.

• Kaguya congratulated Wuye on his wedding, embraced and kissed him, then left the room alone.
• Kaguya sensed a pull toward Hyuga Hiashi's former residence and wondered whether her next life was waiting there, but feared losing her memories and lacking a body of her own.
• Wuye reassured Kushina that Kaguya's story would have a good outcome, then held Kushina as they reflected on their first meeting.
• Kushina recalled that Wuye had secretly protected her from classmates who mocked her red hair, but had rejected her confession when she was seven.
• Wuye apologized and told Kushina she was the one he had hurt most deeply.

Wuye confessed to Kushina that he had once wanted to break up with her because breaking up gave him power. Kushina was hurt but forgave him, and they ended the night together as a paper crane drifted through the window.

• Wuye told Kushina that he had wanted to break up with her back then, despite what she had believed.
• Wuye explained that breaking up was the only way he could gain power, and that he had stopped deliberately hurting people after he understood the cost.
• Kushina angrily struck Wuye but stayed in his arms, then accepted his care and told him to treat her well.
• Kushina changed into a goose-yellow outfit with thigh-high stockings, and Wuye carried her back to bed.
• A paper crane floated through the window as Wuye and Kushina embraced on the bed.

Danzo ambushed Konan outside Konoha, while Hatake Sakumo set out to follow his Root forces. At dawn, Wuye found Konan’s paper crane and realized she had come to Konoha, leaving him determined to seek her, Yahiko, and Nagato.

• Danzo and the Root ninja attacked Konan on Kikyo Mountain, and she escaped into the forest despite being wounded.
• Hatake Sakumo learned Danzo had left Konoha to capture spies and went after him, telling Kakashi to inform Wuye in the morning.
• Wuye woke beside Kushina and noticed Konan’s paper crane on the windowsill.
• Wuye recognized Konan’s message and decided he should find her, Yahiko, and Nagato.

After learning that Danzo had left Konoha with Root, Wuye suspected he was pursuing Konan and prepared to leave the village. Kushina stayed behind, while Kurama refused her request for more chakra and reconsidered Wuye’s attitude toward it.

• Kakashi congratulated Wuye on his marriage and reported that Danzo had left Konoha with many Root members, claiming he was hunting foreign spies.
• Wuye connected Danzo’s departure to Konan and the coming attack on Yahiko and Nagato, then asked Kakashi to notify Minato that he was leaving the village.
• Wuye told Kushina he would be away briefly, and she agreed to manage the household while he was gone.
• Kushina asked Kurama for another tail’s worth of chakra, but Kurama refused because it was in a bad mood.
• Wuye told Kushina that Kurama did not owe them its chakra, leaving Kurama conflicted as Wuye departed.

Hyuga Wuye told Uchiha Mikoto he would marry her on next year's Konoha Wedding Day, and she later visited Kushina to celebrate and tease her about her relationship with him. The two friends ended up playfully wrestling on Kushina's bed and discussed sharing Wuye after Mikoto married into the family.

• Hyuga Wuye met Uchiha Mikoto as he prepared to leave the village, and she told him the Uchiha Clan hoped they would marry within a year.
• Wuye agreed with Mikoto that they would marry on next year's Konoha Wedding Day, and she watched him leave happily.
• Mikoto visited Kushina and teased her about her appearance and what it felt like to be intimate with Wuye.
• Kushina and Mikoto wrestled playfully on the bed, and Kushina suggested that they accompany Wuye together after Mikoto married him.

Wuye traveled openly through the Land of Rain, determined to save his former disciple Yahiko, while a Shadow Clone confronted Masked Obito as he attacked Akatsuki members. The chapter ended with Wuye’s clone facing Obito after joking that he had come to the Land of Rain for his honeymoon.

• Wuye left Konoha to pursue his plans in the Land of Rain and resolved to do everything he could to save Yahiko.
• Wuye spotted Akatsuki reinforcements being stopped by Masked Obito and sent a Shadow Clone to intervene.
• Masked Obito claimed Akatsuki’s leaders were dead and attacked the group, but Wuye’s Shadow Clone struck with a Rasengan.
• Obito turned intangible to avoid the attack, and the Akatsuki members recognized Wuye as the Fourth Hokage.
• Wuye’s Shadow Clone joked that he had come to the Land of Rain for his honeymoon and stopped Obito from bullying the group.

Wuye's Shadow Clone confronted Masked Obito as Obito tried to stop him from interfering with the Land of Rain. Meanwhile, Hanzo forced Nagato to choose between killing Yahiko and letting Konan die, leaving Nagato holding the kunai as Yahiko faced him.

• Wuye's Shadow Clone identified Masked Obito's Sharingan and refused to let him slaughter people in another country.
• Masked Obito attacked Wuye's Shadow Clone, who prepared to counter while guarding against Kamui.
• Hanzo and Danzo surrounded Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan in a valley and demanded that Nagato kill Yahiko or Konan would die.
• Yahiko urged Nagato to pick up the kunai and kill him, while Konan begged the two men to run.
• Nagato picked up the kunai again and stood facing Yahiko as Hanzo, Danzo, and the surrounding shinobi watched.

Wuye arrived in the Land of Rain in time to stop Yahiko from taking Nagato’s kunai and challenged Hanzo and Danzo over their actions. After Akatsuki reinforcements arrived and Root withdrew, Hanzo launched another attack, and Wuye rescued Konan as an unknown attacker opened a vortex behind Yahiko.

• Wuye stopped Yahiko from impaling himself on Nagato’s kunai and confronted Hanzo and Danzo.
• Wuye ordered Danzo and Root to return to Konoha, while Akatsuki reinforcements gathered around Yahiko and Nagato.
• Danzo withdrew Root after Akatsuki’s reinforcements arrived, and Hanzo ordered Konan killed and triggered an Explosive Flame Formation.
• Wuye’s original body rescued Konan with a Rasengan, while his Shadow Clone charged toward Hanzo.
• An Akatsuki member behind Yahiko touched his shoulder, and a vortex appeared.

Obito killed Yahiko and provoked Nagato into unleashing the Gedo Statue, while Wuye and Hatake Sakumo defeated Hanzo and the Rain ninjas. Wuye calmed Nagato by arguing that Yahiko might still be alive, then offered to help Akatsuki as he prepared to discuss matters on behalf of Konoha and the Land of Fire.

• Obito ambushed Yahiko, then escaped as Nagato's Rinnegan attack passed through him.
• Nagato summoned the Gedo Statue and sent its chakra dragon against the Rain ninjas and Hanzo.
• Hatake Sakumo severed Hanzo's right arm, and Wuye's shadow clone struck him with a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken that killed him.
• Nagato turned the chakra dragon on Hatake Sakumo, but Wuye stopped him and suggested that Yahiko might have survived Obito's space-time teleportation.
• Nagato broke the rods connecting him to the Gedo Statue and agreed to return to Akatsuki's base, while Wuye offered to remove Konan's restraints and discuss matters for Konoha and the Land of Fire.

Wuye brought Konan back to their old wooden house, where they cautiously began reconnecting after ten years apart. Konan chose to keep Hanzo’s binding technique for now and asked Wuye to make the meal he remembered.

• Wuye carried Konan through the rain to the place where she and Nagato had agreed to meet, and he promised to study Hanzo’s binding technique.
• Wuye found the wooden house unchanged, and Konan entered and explained that sitting there had helped her feel her own existence and his.
• Konan folded paper beside Wuye as he used his Byakugan to examine the binding technique and search for a flaw.
• Wuye found a way to undo the binding, but Konan asked him not to remove it yet.
• Konan told Wuye she had not eaten for two days, and he went to make the food she said he already knew she wanted.

Wuye and Konan reunited over grilled fish and rice porridge, and their affection for each other overcame the distance between them. The chapter ended with Wuye carrying Konan toward the bath and telling her that he still liked her.

• Wuye told Konan that he had never forgotten her and never intended to let her go.
• Wuye fed Konan rice porridge before they shared the grilled fish.
• Wuye prepared bathwater for Konan and carried her into his arms.
• Wuye told Konan she was beautiful and admitted that he still liked her.

Wuye and Konan discussed their feelings and the burdens keeping them apart while she bathed under his care. Konan suggested they spend the night together to put their worries aside, but Wuye left when Nagato arrived, leaving her proposal unanswered.

• Konan told Wuye that she kept thinking of him despite knowing their positions conflicted, and Wuye promised their conflict would gradually fade through cooperation.
• Wuye said he wanted to take Konan back to Konoha but would respect her choice, and Konan wept as she thanked him.
• Konan asked Wuye to undo the binding technique, but he persuaded her to wait until morning so Nagato would not be left alone.
• After Wuye helped Konan to bed, she asked whether he wanted her and suggested they spend the night together without their usual burdens.
• Wuye stayed silent until the middle of the night, then covered Konan with a blanket and left to see Nagato.

After Yahiko disappeared, Wuye urged Nagato to abandon Akatsuki’s ideals of mutual understanding and make the world feel pain to force peace. Nagato agreed to become a feared power and cooperate with Wuye’s plan to unify the ninja world, but admitted he did not fully trust his teacher.

• Nagato told Wuye that he had dealt with the Gedo Statue, and Wuye explained that it could absorb tailed beasts and destroy a country.
• Nagato suspected Konoha had taken Yahiko because the masked ninjas had Sharingan, but Wuye denied Konoha’s involvement and warned that individuals could act independently of their village.
• Wuye questioned Nagato about finding Yahiko and leading Akatsuki and the Land of Rain, then told him that people who had not suffered could not understand others.
• Wuye proposed making the world experience pain so people would fear war and cherish peace, and Nagato resolved to gather the tailed beasts and become an existence the world feared.
• Wuye offered to provide Nagato with four tailed beasts and revealed his plan for Konoha and the Land of Fire to rule the ninja world, with Nagato serving as its dark side.
• Nagato acknowledged Wuye’s vision but said he did not dare trust him completely.

Wuye explained to Nagato how the Land of Fire could develop the Land of Rain through an alliance, and Nagato agreed to judge the plan by its results over five years. Wuye proposed that Konan lead the Rain ninja and promised to marry her after the ninja world was unified.

• Nagato questioned how Wuye would unify the ninja world without exploiting the Land of Rain, and Wuye proposed an alliance that would bring Fire merchants, factories, jobs, and trade to the country.
• Nagato agreed to give Wuye five years to prove that civilians' lives in the Land of Rain could improve before beginning the tailed-beast plan.
• Nagato asked Wuye what he would do about Konan and suggested bringing her to Konoha, but Wuye said she would not be happy abandoning Yahiko's dream.
• Wuye proposed that Nagato recruit new members for Akatsuki while Konan led the former members and Rain ninja in ruling the Land of Rain.
• Wuye promised to marry Konan once the Land of Rain was unified with the rest of the ninja world, and Nagato expressed relief.

Nagato began preparing to rebuild the Akatsuki and asked Wuye to stay with Konan in the Land of Rain. Meanwhile, masked Obito recruited Danzo into a plan to use the Nine-Tails against the Fourth Hokage, and Konan kissed Wuye the next morning.

• Nagato told Wuye he would gather the Rain ninja, eliminate Hanzo's loyalists, make Konan the Land of Rain's leader, and reorganize the Akatsuki under the Rain Ninja Village.
• Nagato asked Wuye to stay with Konan for a few months, then spent the night grieving his former bond with Yahiko.
• Masked Obito approached Danzo and proposed working together to deal with the Fourth Hokage by controlling the Nine-Tails.
• Danzo agreed to hear more about Obito's plan, while Obito said he wanted the Nine-Tails.
• The next morning, Konan told Wuye she had been suppressing her feelings and kissed him.

After months of domestic life with Konan, Wuye helped bring the Land of Rain into an alliance with Konoha and expand their influence among neighboring countries. Back in Konoha, he agreed to announce his engagement to Mikoto but grew uneasy about Uchiha Fugaku’s withdrawal from clan affairs.

• Wuye and Konan settled into a peaceful routine for months before he moved his main base of operations back to Konoha.
• Nagato left Konan in charge of the Rain Ninja Village while he recruited rogue ninjas, and the village allied with Konoha and opened the Land of Rain to the Land of Fire.
• Nagato’s Akatsuki defeated the Iwagakure assassins sent by Onoki, while Konan beat and expelled a Sand Village delegation that demanded neutrality.
• Konoha and the Rain Ninja Village cleared bandits and rogue ninjas from the Land of Rain, and Wuye had Nara Shikaku prepare a plan for bringing neighboring small countries into alliances.
• Mikoto told Wuye that Uchiha Fugaku wanted to announce their engagement at a clan banquet, and Wuye agreed while questioning Fugaku’s recent silence and neglect of clan affairs.
• Wuye reassured Mikoto that he would not break with the Uchiha Clan unless they provoked him.