Chapter Summaries

Danzo considered exploiting the conflict over Hyuga Wuye, while the Third called a meeting with the Hyuga and Uchiha Grand Elders. Wuye watched the standoff with Kushina and was summoned to observe the meeting, leaving the clans’ dispute unresolved.

• Danzo brooded over his failed plan to recruit Wuye and considered using the conflict to weaken the Hyuga and Uchiha Clans or challenge the Third.
• An Anbu reported that Uchiha Yuxiong had demanded Wuye’s return from Hyuga Naoya, who refused, and that Uchiha and Hyuga jonin had gathered at the compound gates.
• The Third assessed the clan confrontation and Hyuga Kaguya’s record, then ordered a high-level meeting with the Grand Elders but not the Clan Heads.
• Wuye watched the standoff with Kushina and explained that the Hyuga, the Third, and public opinion could protect him from the Uchiha taking his eyes.
• Masked messengers summoned the Grand Elders and asked Wuye to observe the meeting, and Wuye stood to answer Hyuga Naoya’s call.

The Third Hokage and the clan elders debated whether Hyuga Wuye should belong to the Hyuga or Uchiha Clan, while weighing village security and the coming war. With the elders deadlocked, the Third Hokage asked Wuye what he wanted, leaving the decision in his hands.

• The Third Hokage, Danzo, Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, and Akimichi Torifu discussed how to manage the conflict over Wuye and rejected taking him into their direct control.
• Hyuga Naoya and Uchiha Yuxiong argued over whether Wuye should remain Hyuga or join the Uchiha because he had awakened the Sharingan.
• Hyuga Naoya challenged Uchiha Yuxiong to identify Wuye's father, and Uchiha Yuxiong admitted he did not know.
• Akimichi Torifu offered to adopt Wuye, but Hyuga Naoya and Uchiha Yuxiong both objected.
• The Third Hokage asked Wuye what he wanted, and the elders fell silent as his opinion became important.

Hyuga Wuye faced pressure from the Hyuga and Uchiha clans to choose where he would belong, but after learning his mother had died, he said he had no attachments to the Hyuga and hoped to live with Akimichi Torifu. Hyuga clan head Hyuga Kaguya then arrived and declared that no one could force Wuye to leave the clan.

• Hyuga Naoya and Uchiha Yuxiong argued over whether Wuye should remain with the Hyuga or join the Uchiha, and Wuye said he wanted to join the Anbu.
• When the Third asked Wuye to choose a clan, Wuye asked Hyuga Naoya when his mother would return.
• Hyuga Naoya told Wuye that his mother had died protecting the clan head during an S-rank mission, and Wuye said he had no attachments left in the Hyuga Clan.
• Wuye hoped to live with Akimichi Torifu, and Hyuga Naoya agreed he could leave if the Uchiha Clan compensated the Hyuga Clan.
• Hyuga Kaguya entered the meeting and declared that Wuye was a Hyuga and no one could force him to leave the clan.

Hyuga Kaguya kept Hyuga Wuye in the Hyuga Clan and brought him before a clan assembly, where she declared that children born outside clan marriage should still be accepted. The chapter ended with Chief Elder Hyuga Naoya proposing that Wuye be branded with the Caged Bird seal as a branch-family member.

• Hyuga Kaguya used her Byakugan to pressure Uchiha Yuxiong into abandoning his objection, and the Third confirmed that Hyuga Wuye would remain with the Hyuga Clan.
• Hyuga Kaguya led Wuye from the Hokage conference room and summoned the Hyuga Clan members to an assembly.
• Hyuga Kaguya seated Wuye beside her, prompting clan members to watch him with curiosity and growing acceptance.
• Hyuga Kaguya declared that Wuye would forever belong to the Hyuga Clan and that children born outside clan marriage should be accepted.
• Hyuga Naoya interrupted and proposed that Wuye be treated as a branch-family member and bear the Caged Bird seal.

At a Hyuga Clan assembly, Hyuga Wuye challenged the reasoning behind giving him the Caged Bird, and Kaguya used the dispute to abolish the Caged Bird and main-branch family systems. She then confronted Hyuga Naoya over his past treatment of her and Hyuga Kotone, leaving the assembly stunned by her accusation that he had urged Kotone to kill her.

• Hyuga Wuye argued that the Caged Bird was meant to protect the Byakugan and questioned whether it instead controlled the branch family.
• Kaguya declared that she was abolishing the Caged Bird system and the division between the main and branch families.
• Kaguya blamed the old system for weakening the clan and said she had vowed to abolish it after Hyuga Naoya assigned Hyuga Hizashi to the branch family.
• Hyuga Naoya objected and threatened to replace Kaguya with Hyuga Hiashi, who refused the position and supported his sister.
• Kaguya challenged Naoya about demanding that Hyuga Kotone complete fifty A-rank missions before returning to the village.
• Kaguya accused Naoya of threatening Kotone to kill her in exchange for keeping Hyuga Wuye free of the Caged Bird, silencing the hall.

Kaguya exposed Hyuga Naoya’s attempt to sell Wuye to the Uchiha and used her Byakugan’s pressure to force him to kneel. She left with Wuye, declaring herself his sister and promising to kill anyone who threatened the Byakugan.

• Hyuga Naoya denied Kaguya’s accusations, while she explained that Kotone had never sought revenge on the clan and had died protecting her.
• Kaguya revealed her Byakugan ability, Pressure, and overwhelmed Hyuga Naoya and the gathered Hyuga Clan members.
• Kaguya condemned Hyuga Naoya for nearly selling Wuye to the Uchiha and crushed him with her pressure when he defended the decision.
• Kaguya declared she would care for Wuye as his sister and challenged Hyuga Naoya to face him when Wuye was twelve, after which the Great Elder’s position would be abolished if Wuye defeated him.
• Kaguya took Wuye from the hall and vowed to kill anyone who set their sights on the Byakugan.

Kaguya confronted Hyuga Hiashi about his part in the clan head dispute, then invited Wuye to live with her and brought him to train. The chapter ended with Kaguya beating Wuye soundly in their first training session.

• Kaguya told Hyuga Hiashi she would let him become clan head if he could defeat her, while Hyuga Hizashi noted that the Caged Bird seal could not be removed.
• Kaguya invited Wuye to live near her, explaining that Kotone had asked her to take care of him.
• Wuye moved into a side room in Kaguya's residence and changed into training clothes.
• Kaguya began training with Wuye after the Hyuga brothers chose him to go first.
• Kaguya beat Wuye until he collapsed into a puddle on the floor.

Kaguya finished sparring with Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi, then tested Wuye and considered finding someone else to train him. She planned to take Wuye out the next morning.

• Kaguya brutally beat Hyuga Hizashi in a minute and continued sparring with Hiashi until she vented her anger over his trust in Hyuga Naoya.
• Kaguya told the brothers to seek missions and combat experience, and praised Wuye's fierce taijutsu while judging that he could defeat them in a fight to the death.
• Wuye explained that severe injuries increased his physical energy and chakra while threatening his lifespan, and Kaguya questioned him about his unusual chakra reserves.
• Kaguya ordered the brothers to spar and made Wuye call her Big Sister before he attacked her; she easily knocked him around during their training.
• Kaguya decided she was not suited to teach Wuye without the Byakugan, told him to rest, and said she would take him out the next morning.

After visiting Hyuga Kotone’s grave, Wuye learned that Salamander Hanzo had been involved in her death, while Kaguya protected him from a Uchiha with the Sharingan. Kaguya then asked Tsunade to train Wuye, and the chapter ended with Tsunade questioning why he did not seem sad about his mother’s death.

• Kaguya took Wuye to Hyuga Kotone’s grave, where he mourned his mother and asked how she had died.
• Kaguya said Salamander Hanzo had nearly killed her and her team on an S-rank mission, and Wuye resolved to remember his name.
• Kaguya spotted a Uchiha with the Sharingan preparing genjutsu, drove the watcher away, and warned Wuye to stay close.
• The black-robed Uchiha revealed sorrow over Kotone and regretted that she had stayed with the Hyuga Clan instead of leaving with him.
• Kaguya asked Tsunade to take Wuye as her disciple, invoking a favor Tsunade owed her.
• Tsunade teased Wuye, then asked why he was not grieving when his mother had been his last remaining family.

Tsunade agreed to take Wuye as her disciple after Kaguya promised to repay a supposed thirty million ryo debt, while Wuye and Kaguya left the restaurant unaware Tsunade never planned to collect. On the street, Hyuga Naoya ambushed Wuye, sealed his chakra points, and drove a kunai toward his heart.

• Wuye told Tsunade that living happily and forging new bonds would comfort his deceased mother, and Tsunade agreed to take him as her disciple if Kaguya repaid thirty million ryo.
• Tsunade explained that she had lent Kaguya thirty million ryo when Kaguya became clan head, and Kaguya realized Tsunade had recognized her at the casino years earlier.
• Kaguya agreed to find a way to repay the money and left with Wuye, while Akimichi Torifu offered to pay the debt and Tsunade revealed she only wanted to tease Kaguya.
• Wuye worried about Kaguya diverting clan funds, while Tsunade told Akimichi Torifu she would eventually return the money and had never intended to collect it.
• Hyuga Naoya ambushed Wuye, struck his chest, and sealed the acupuncture points controlling his chakra flow.
• Hyuga Naoya sealed nearly all of Wuye's acupuncture points and thrust a kunai toward his heart, threatening to cripple him.

Hyuga Wuye broke free of Uchiha Yuxiong’s genjutsu after Kaguya intervened, but the staged attack left him and Kaguya facing public suspicion. Hyuga Naoya failed to have Wuye expelled or branded with the Caged Bird, though his influence over the clan remained a threat.

• Hyuga Wuye realized his apparent fight with Hyuga Naoya was a genjutsu and broke it with chakra Kaguya poured into him.
• Wuye found himself in Kaguya’s arms as Naoya accused him of ambushing the Clan Head and demanded his expulsion or branding with the Caged Bird.
• Kaguya searched for the genjutsu user, but Uchiha Yuxiong escaped as a shadow clone disappeared.
• Kaguya rejected Naoya’s demand and ordered the clansmen to disperse, while Wuye recognized that the Uchiha had tried to turn the clan against him.
• Naoya accused Kaguya of endangering the clan, vowed to remove her, and left; Kaguya worried that they could not afford another weakness.

Hyuga Wuye struggled to find a way to earn thirty million ryo until Kushina offered to buy him and revealed she had inherited a fortune. Learning that sealing scrolls had become scarce and expensive, Wuye saw a business opportunity and asked Kushina for the scroll-making method, though he could not understand it.

• Wuye considered ways to raise thirty million ryo, while Kaguya thought about selling clan property and possessions to help him.
• Kushina visited Wuye, asked about his recent troubles, and offered him thirty million ryo when he admitted he needed the money.
• Kushina revealed that Grandma Mito had put former Uzumaki businesses and savings worth about five hundred million ryo in her name.
• Kushina explained that the Uzumaki Clan's destruction had ended its production of sealing scrolls, driving their price up.
• Wuye asked Kushina for the sealing scroll-making method, and she brought him the instructions, which he could not understand.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina tried to learn how to locate stable spaces for sealing scrolls, but neither could sense them alone. Wuye discovered he could guide Kushina’s chakra to a suitable space, and they prepared to buy blank scrolls to test the technique.

• Kushina explained how sealing scrolls used spatial nodes and demonstrated the technique, but she failed to find a stable storage space.
• Hyuga Wuye tried the technique himself, yet every spatial node he sensed seemed unstable.
• Wuye guided Kushina’s chakra through the void until she found a stable space, though her excitement made her lose it.
• Kushina offered to buy blank scrolls, but Wuye insisted on paying and froze when he learned each one cost five thousand ryo.

Hyuga Wuye and Uzumaki Kushina finished making three hundred sealing scrolls and negotiated with Akimichi Torifu to fund a ninja tool shop. They agreed to give Torifu a share and put the shop’s profits into a joint account, while Wuye planned to use the investment money for something urgent.

• Kushina and Wuye made three hundred sealing scrolls over two weeks, repeatedly getting sent outside class for their work.
• Wuye decided they should open a shop and took Kushina to ask Akimichi Torifu for investment.
• Torifu explained that the village had to buy sealing scrolls first at eighty percent of market price, then offered them exclusive selling rights.
• Torifu offered thirty million ryo and an Akimichi-owned ninja tool store in exchange for twenty percent of the business.
• Wuye proposed dividing the remaining shares with Kushina, but she refused to take any; Torifu suggested they share a joint account, and Kushina agreed.

Akimichi Torifu arranged for Hyuga Wuye to buy a ninja tool shop, whose owner Tianyu and wife secretly remained loyal to Wuye’s clan. Wuye and Kushina discovered the shop’s passage to an adult clothing store, where they encountered Minato and Jiraiya.

• Akimichi Torifu asked Tianyu to gather twenty million ryo for Wuye’s purchase, and they discussed the hidden clan members who had watched Wuye grow up.
• Akimichi Torifu brought Wuye and Kushina to the three-story ninja tool shop and transferred it, its assistants, and a village order for scrolls to Wuye.
• Wuye noticed a passage to the neighboring entertainment-district shop and ran through it with Kushina, despite Akimichi Torifu’s attempts to stop them.
• Wuye and Kushina explored the revealing clothing upstairs, and Kushina hit Wuye when he imagined her wearing it.
• Wuye met Minato and learned that Jiraiya had taken him as a student, then teased them about Jiraiya’s interest in peeping for writing inspiration.

Hyuga Wuye persuaded Jiraiya to write popular, vulgar books before publishing his serious novel, then returned to the Hyuga estate and found Kaguya selling family antiques to help him. Wuye offered Hyuga Hiashi thirty million ryo for the antiques, leaving Hiashi stunned.

• Hyuga Wuye convinced Jiraiya that writing popular lowbrow material could make him famous enough to publish The Tale of the Gallant Ninja, and Jiraiya set off to gather material.
• Wuye joked to Kushina that he wanted to read Jiraiya's future Make-Out Paradise to learn poses, earning a blow to the head.
• Wuye overheard Hyuga Hiashi protesting Kaguya's decision to sell their father's antiques to support him.
• Kaguya told Hiashi she had promised Kotone to care for Wuye and would repay the money by taking S-rank missions.
• Wuye stopped Hiashi as he left with the antiques and offered him a bankbook containing thirty million ryo in exchange for them.

Wuye gave Kaguya thirty million ryo in cash and a shop, then joined her and the Hyuga brothers for a sparring session. While watching Kaguya activate her Byakugan, he awakened his own and accidentally saw the Third Hokage spying through a crystal ball before Kaguya blocked the connection.

• Wuye gave Kaguya antiques and explained how he had raised thirty million ryo and acquired a shop.
• Wuye drank from Kaguya's teacup, prompting Hiashi to accuse him of flirting with her.
• Kaguya took Wuye, Hiashi, and Hizashi to the training room and said she would test each of them.
• Wuye analyzed Kaguya's Byakugan activation and tried to reproduce it, awakening an ordinary Byakugan.
• Wuye saw the Third Hokage watching the women's bathhouse through a crystal ball, and the Third Hokage traced the vision toward the Hyuga estate.
• Kaguya's pressure cut off the Third Hokage's sensory connection, and he assumed one of the Hyuga brothers had accidentally looked his way.

Hyuga Wuye awakened a Byakugan that could see farther than those of the Hyuga brothers, then learned how its Insight Eye worked. Kaguya began teaching him the Gentle Fist, but sent him flying into a wall when he accidentally used X-ray vision instead of the Insight Eye.

• Kaguya and the Hyuga brothers noticed Wuye's unusual Byakugan, and he explained that it awakened when he watched Kaguya activate hers.
• Wuye tested both his Byakugan and Sharingan, finding that he could activate only one at a time.
• Kaguya taught Wuye that the Byakugan had X-ray vision and an all-around Insight Eye, and he discovered his Insight Eye reached about ninety meters.
• Kaguya told Wuye to use the Insight Eye to study the chakra pathways in her body, but he used X-ray vision and she knocked him into a wall.

Hyuga Wuye endured Kaguya’s brutal Gentle Fist training before joining Kaguya and Tsunade as they clashed in a sparring match. The fight ended with both women exhausted and Wuye pondering Tsunade’s ability to heal damaged chakra pathways.

• Kaguya used Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms on Wuye and told him to memorize the sealed acupoints, while Hiashi mocked him.
• The next day, Kaguya gave Tsunade a bankbook containing thirty million ryo, but Tsunade returned it and said she would teach Wuye because she owed Kaguya a favor.
• Tsunade teased Kaguya until the two women began a fierce sparring match, forcing Wuye to retreat a hundred meters.
• Kaguya used her newly awakened Byakugan: Pressure to slow Tsunade and land a barrage of Eight Trigrams: Two Hundred Fifty-Six Palms, but Tsunade broke the attack with a Monster Strength Fist.
• Tsunade explained that she had forced chakra through her arm to interrupt Kaguya’s technique and said her medical skills could repair the resulting damage.

Tsunade became Wuye’s teacher and began testing his aptitude for medical ninjutsu, while their banter revealed Kaguya’s connection to Wuye’s late mother. Wuye learned that Tsunade’s healing technique depended on Yang-nature chakra, but he could not yet figure out how to use it.

• Kaguya left after teasing Tsunade about giving herself to the Hyuga Clan, and Tsunade declared that Wuye would call her Teacher.
• Tsunade joked that Wuye should marry Kaguya, then told him she had once seen Kaguya smile with Hyuga Kotone, Wuye’s late mother.
• Wuye gave Tsunade his thirty-million-ryo bankbook as a gift for becoming her disciple, and she agreed to hold onto it.
• Tsunade tested Wuye by asking him to catch a fish while standing on the water; he used his Sharingan to track and catch it.
• Tsunade demonstrated medical ninjutsu by healing the injured fish and explained that the technique required chakra transformed into a vital Yang-nature attribute.
• Wuye realized he could not yet analyze or use the chakra transformation behind Tsunade’s healing technique.