Chapter Summaries

Tsunade struggled to teach Wuye ninjutsu, concluding that he had little aptitude, until Kaguya took over and explained the Gentle Fist. As Kaguya taught him by holding his hand, she felt their unusual closeness, while Tsunade watched from the sidelines.

• After three days of lessons by the stream, Tsunade concluded that Wuye had almost no talent for ninjutsu despite his Sharingan and sealing skills.
• Kaguya arrived, challenged Tsunade's judgment, and took Wuye away to continue teaching him the Gentle Fist.
• Kaguya showed Wuye how to channel chakra through his hand, but he pretended not to understand and asked her to explain the chakra pathways.
• Kaguya held Wuye's hand as she explained the technique, and their touch stirred the same confusing feelings she had experienced before.
• Tsunade observed their lesson and doubted that Wuye would understand Kaguya's explanation.

Hyuga Wuye quickly learned Gentle Fist techniques from Kaguya, astonishing Tsunade with how easily he mastered them despite struggling with her medical chakra lessons. Kaguya began teaching him the Eight Trigrams Palm, and Wuye analyzed the complex technique as she demonstrated it.

• Wuye demonstrated the Gentle Fist chakra technique after Kaguya taught it to him, leaving Tsunade incredulous.
• Kaguya showed Wuye how to seal an acupoint, and he immediately learned to seal Tsunade’s wrist.
• Tsunade spent half a day trying to teach Wuye to transform medical chakra, but he failed to learn it.
• Kaguya began teaching Wuye the Eight Trigrams Palm and explained its acupoints, footwork, and attack routes.
• Kaguya demonstrated the Eight Trigrams Palm on Wuye while he studied her movements and analyzed the technique.

Wuye practiced the Gentle Fist’s Eight Trigrams technique with Kaguya and Tsunade, while Kaguya tried to use the lesson to engineer a close encounter with Tsunade. The chapter ended with Wuye secretly injuring himself to perform One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms on Kaguya, who fell into his arms after her chakra points were sealed.

• Kaguya demonstrated the acupuncture-point routes and Eight Trigrams footwork again, then asked Tsunade to serve as Wuye’s target.
• Wuye practiced the movements on Tsunade, and Kaguya mischievously told him to lower his hand before Tsunade slapped it away and accused Kaguya of setting her up.
• Tsunade challenged Kaguya to take her place, and Kaguya told Wuye to use the Gentle Fist on her without resisting.
• Wuye secretly cut his arm with a hidden blade to push past his chakra limit, then performed Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms on Kaguya.
• Kaguya’s chakra points were sealed, and she collapsed into Wuye’s arms as Tsunade watched them embrace among the falling leaves.

Wuye watched Tsunade and Kaguya tease each other before following Tsunade to Konoha Hospital to help with a deadly Sand Village poison investigation. While Tsunade worked in the laboratory, Wuye studied her research notes and discovered an unexpected collection of medicine samples.

• Kaguya freed herself from Wuye, argued with Tsunade about his talent, and hurried away after Tsunade teased her about being shy.
• Tsunade encouraged Wuye to pursue Kaguya, then continued training him without success.
• A medical ninja reported that Sand Village had deployed a new poison with a ninety percent mortality rate, so Tsunade took Wuye to Konoha Hospital.
• Tsunade entered the laboratory to lead research on an antidote and gave Wuye the key to her archive room.
• Wuye spent three days studying Tsunade's notes while she worked, then found samples labeled as anesthetic, emergency contraceptive, and desire-stimulant medicines.

Hyuga Wuye resisted using a mysterious desire stimulant on Tsunade, but she pulled him along to celebrate cracking Sand Village’s poison. At Torifu Barbecue, he learned that Tsunade’s plans for medical ninjas were limited by a lack of people able to learn medical ninjutsu, and he considered helping her find a solution.

• Hyuga Wuye found a Human Desire Stimulant and considered using it on Tsunade, but slapped himself and decided to put it back.
• Tsunade burst into the archives room celebrating her breakthrough on Sand Village’s poison and dragged Wuye out before he could return the potion.
• Tsunade’s female doctor colleagues teased Wuye at Konoha Hospital before joining her and Wuye for drinks at Torifu Barbecue.
• The female doctors discussed how long it would take the antidote to reach the border, and Tsunade said funding had been approved for dedicated border hospitals.
• Wuye suggested assigning a medical ninja to every squad, and Tsunade explained that too few ninjas could learn the highly demanding medical ninjutsu.
• Wuye wondered whether his analytical ability could help Tsunade develop easier medical ninjutsu while she urged the women to keep drinking.

Hyuga Wuye was dragged by a drunken Tsunade and the female medics to a hot spring, where their teasing left him overwhelmed. He forgot the potion he had hidden in an open locker as the women crowded around him.

• Tsunade and the drunken female medics decided to book a hot spring for the night and refused to let Wuye go home.
• The women suggested disguising Wuye as a girl, and he used the Transformation Technique before changing back to his own appearance.
• At the inn, the women covered Wuye's eyes while they undressed, then teased him and tried to strip him as well.
• Wuye snatched back the potion bottle when a medic found it, then hurriedly put it in a locker before being pushed into the hot spring.
• The women crowded around Wuye in the water, distracting him until he forgot that the potion was still in the open locker.

After Tsunade drank Wuye’s potion while drunk, it left her overheated and disinhibited, and Wuye struggled to keep her safe without taking advantage of her. He used his Gentle Fist techniques to restrain her, but the potion’s effects persisted as he tried to calm her down.

• Tsunade stumbled out of the bath, found Wuye’s potion, and drank the entire bottle before collapsing in a room.
• Wuye carried the other drunken women away from the hot spring and settled them into the available rooms.
• Wuye found Tsunade flushed and overheated after she drank a teapot of water, and he tried to cover her and carry her back to bed.
• Tsunade repeatedly clung to and bit Wuye, overpowering him until he used Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixteen Palms to seal her acupoints.
• When Tsunade began breaking through the seals, Wuye tried to calm her, but the potion’s effects continued for hours.

After carrying the embarrassed Tsunade home from the hot spring inn, Wuye went to visit Kushina and accepted Nawaki’s challenge. The two began a rematch, with Wuye revealing that he had a new ability as Nawaki prepared to strike.

• The female medics found Wuye exhausted and trembling, and he carried the still-sleeping Tsunade back to the Senju Clan mansion.
• Tsunade woke during the trip and relived memories of the previous night, then pretended to sleep when Nawaki spoke with Wuye outside her room.
• Wuye headed to visit Kushina, but Nawaki challenged him and said Orochimaru had recently been guiding him as a student.
• At the training ground, Nawaki used Water Release and Water Clones to pressure Wuye while planning to interrupt his Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Nawaki used the Body Flicker Technique to strike Wuye as he formed hand seals, but Wuye revealed that he had only been pretending to prepare the chains and wanted to test a new ability.

Hyuga Wuye defeated Nawaki with the Byakugan and Eight Trigrams Palm, then escaped Orochimaru’s request to take his blood when Tsunade intervened. After Tsunade left, Kushina found Wuye, and he suggested a way to use her Adamantine Sealing Chains without hand seals.

• Wuye used the Byakugan and Eight Trigrams Palm to immobilize Nawaki, then outmaneuvered him with the Body Replacement Technique and won their spar.
• Wuye explained that he had anticipated Nawaki forcing open the first acupoint in his right arm, and suggested Nawaki focus on long-range ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru noticed Wuye’s Byakugan and asked to take his blood, but Tsunade protected her new disciple and persuaded Orochimaru to leave with Nawaki.
• Wuye realized Tsunade might remember what happened the previous night, then welcomed Kushina when she arrived at the training ground.
• After Kushina described her difficulty using Adamantine Sealing Chains against Nawaki, Wuye suggested that she might use the technique without hand seals.

Wuye analyzed how spiritual energy and hand seals shaped Kushina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains, then offered to help her master the Uzumaki sealing arts. Tsunade grew jealous as she watched them, and whisked Wuye away for training before Kushina could take him to the Uzumaki clan shrine.

• Kushina demonstrated Adamantine Sealing Chains while Wuye studied how her spiritual energy transformed her chakra into chains.
• Wuye concluded that hand seals controlled spiritual energy and explained the principles of casting without them to Kushina.
• Tsunade watched Wuye hold Kushina’s hand and felt jealous, then confronted them while struggling to hide her feelings about the previous night.
• Kushina’s mood lifted when Wuye promised to help her understand the Uzumaki sealing arts, but Tsunade complained that he could understand Kushina’s techniques and not hers.
• Kushina invited Wuye to the Uzumaki clan shrine, but Tsunade blocked her and used the Body Flicker Technique to take Wuye away for training.

Tsunade demonstrated the Mystical Palm Technique, and Wuye mastered it immediately before she began teaching him the Chakra Scalpel. After Wuye teased her about the previous night, Tsunade beat him badly enough to send him to Konoha Hospital.

• Tsunade dragged Wuye to the stream and demonstrated the Mystical Palm Technique, letting him observe her Chakra flow.
• Wuye claimed he had learned the technique, teased Tsunade with a bet about giving her a massage, and was thrown into the stream several times.
• Wuye healed a half-dead fish with the Mystical Palm Technique, proving to Tsunade that he had mastered it.
• Tsunade began teaching Wuye the Chakra Scalpel and took his hand to guide him through the technique.
• Wuye reminded Tsunade of their intimate moments the previous night, and she beat him until he was admitted to Konoha Hospital.

Tsunade and Kaguya fought over whether Wuye should remain her medical-ninjutsu disciple or return to the Hyuga Clan to train. Meanwhile, Wuye accompanied Kushina to the Uzumaki ancestral hall, where she granted him access to the clan’s sealing arts, and a blood-activated barrier began to respond to him.

• Kaguya confronted Tsunade at Konoha Hospital and learned that Wuye had spent three months training in medical ninjutsu and working at the hospital.
• Tsunade and Kaguya argued over Wuye’s future and their conflicting views on using the Byakugan, then clashed in the hospital plaza.
• Wuye and Kushina sneaked away from the village edge to visit the Uzumaki ancestral hall, where Kushina complained that Tsunade had kept him busy for three months.
• Kushina bowed before the Uzumaki memorial tablets and declared that she was granting Wuye full access to the clan’s sealing arts.
• Kushina opened a hidden sealing barrier and pressed Wuye’s hand against it, causing his blood to make the formation glow.

Hyuga Wuye entered Kushina’s sealing space to investigate the strange disturbances that had been frightening her at night. At the Nine-Tails’ sealed gate, he promised to protect her, while something behind the door seemed to react.

• Kushina showed Hyuga Wuye the Uzumaki clan’s secret chamber and explained that its barrier now recognized his blood.
• Wuye chose the Curse Binding Technique and Five Elements Seal for Kushina to learn, then said he would learn whatever she did.
• Kushina asked Wuye to enter her sealing space because she had been hearing frightening noises at night.
• Wuye used their joined hands and his Sharingan to enter Kushina’s body, where they found the Nine-Tails’ sealed gate in a strangely quiet space.
• Wuye suggested opening the gate, but Kushina panicked and crashed into his arms; he promised to always protect her, as something behind the gate seemed to laugh silently.

Wuye and Kushina entered the seal and found the Nine-Tails restrained, then loosened most of its chains after it agreed to stop firing Tailed Beast Bombs. The Nine-Tails tricked them by separating Kushina from Wuye and prepared to attack him.

• Wuye and Kushina opened the gate, dodged the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb, and found it bound by chakra chains.
• Wuye sealed the Nine-Tails' mouth when it tried to form another Tailed Beast Bomb, then offered to loosen its restraints if it behaved.
• The Nine-Tails nodded, and Wuye released its mouth, neck, limbs, and eight tails while keeping one tail bound.
• The Nine-Tails suddenly ensnared Kushina in scarlet chakra and attacked Wuye after explaining that it had learned their seal key only worked when they were together.

Wuye used the keys to restrain the Nine-Tails and stopped it from eroding Kushina by tickling it into agreeing to behave. After Kushina woke, Wuye asked the Nine-Tails its name, and it reluctantly told him it was Kurama.

• The Nine-Tails threatened to torment Wuye, but he taunted it instead of showing fear.
• Wuye revealed that either key could activate the chakra chains and bound the Nine-Tails again.
• Wuye tickled the restrained Nine-Tails with chakra chains until it agreed not to attack him, fire Tailed Beast Bombs at night, or erode Kushina.
• Kushina woke, and Wuye told her that the Nine-Tails would leave her alone.
• Wuye teased the Nine-Tails with silly nicknames until it reluctantly revealed its name was Kurama.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina left the sealing space after befriending Kurama, then headed back from the Uzumaki Shrine. Danzo tried to move against Wuye, but the Third Hokage stopped him and ordered a new strategy to influence Wuye through public messaging and village ties.

• Kushina used Mito Uzumaki's seal to block Kurama's senses, and Wuye suggested they play Fight the Landlord with it another time.
• Danzo appeared at the shrine and prepared to order Root to seize Wuye, but the Third Hokage stopped him.
• Danzo urged the Third Hokage to control Wuye before he could unite the Hyuga and Uchiha clans or influence Kushina, but the Hokage refused to attack a fellow village ninja without cause.
• The Third Hokage told Danzo to stop trying to control Wuye and to portray him publicly as an orphan rejected by both the Hyuga and Uchiha clans.
• The Third Hokage planned to promote Wuye's future work at Konoha Hospital and the Ninja Academy while observing whether Kushina and Tsunade's bonds with him would outweigh Hyuga Kaguya's influence.

Hyuga Wuye found Tsunade and Kaguya arguing over his training and future after Tsunade offered him hospital and academy positions. The two demanded that he choose between them, but Wuye questioned why he could not learn from both.

• Hyuga Wuye and Kushina arrived at Konoha Hospital and found its grounds wrecked, where Tsunade and Kaguya had just fought.
• Tsunade told Wuye she had nominated him as an emergency physician and a Ninja Academy medical ninjutsu instructor, and had arranged for him to study under her.
• Kaguya ordered Wuye to leave Tsunade's tutelage and return to the Hyuga Clan so she could teach him instead.
• Tsunade offered to adopt Wuye, while Kaguya insisted that he belonged to the Hyuga Clan, and both asked him to choose between them.
• Wuye asked why he could not study clan techniques with Kaguya and medical ninjutsu with Tsunade, prompting them to argue over which path best suited his talents.

Tsunade and Kaguya argued over whether Wuye’s strength came from the Byakugan or from combining several abilities, then agreed that he would fight Hyuga Hiashi. The dispute over where Wuye would stay continued, and Kaguya left after Tsunade revealed she was betting on Hiashi.

• Kaguya insisted the Byakugan and Hyuga bloodline should be Wuye’s highest priorities, while Tsunade argued that his combined skills made him stronger than Hyuga Chunin.
• Kaguya chose Hiashi, whom she had trained for three months, to fight Wuye the next day.
• Tsunade and Kaguya disagreed over where Wuye should stay, and Wuye proposed staying at the hospital.
• Kaguya challenged Tsunade to bet on the fight, with the loser agreeing not to interfere in Wuye’s affairs.
• Tsunade said she was betting on Hiashi, and Kaguya left without finalizing the bet.

Kushina visited Wuye at Konoha Hospital and worried that becoming the Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki would keep her from leaving the village or being assigned to his team. Wuye promised to help her prove she could handle missions, but their late-night talk shifted into a massage that left Kushina dazed.

• Kushina sneaked into the hospital lounge to keep Wuye company and asked whether he would still graduate and join a team.
• Wuye said he expected to graduate normally and explained that Kushina might not be allowed to leave the village during the coming war.
• Wuye told Kushina she would need to prove her strength and control over the Nine-Tails to earn permission to go on missions.
• Kushina vowed to train for her freedom, but balked when Wuye suggested studying sealing techniques together.
• Wuye gave Kushina a head massage, then continued massaging her arms until she drifted into a dazed, cloudlike state.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina spent the night together, and Tsunade woke them the next morning to take Wuye to challenge Hyuga Hiashi. As the Hyuga clan prepared for the match, Kaguya warned Hiashi not to underestimate Wuye and threatened to train both brothers if Hiashi lost.

• Wuye used a sealing scroll to cover himself and Kushina with a blanket, and they fell asleep together.
• Tsunade burst into the lounge and told Wuye to come with her to the Hyuga Clan, while Kushina was told to go to school.
• Kaguya learned that Tsunade had announced Wuye's challenge to Hiashi to the clan and directed the maid to take them to the central trial grounds.
• Kaguya warned Hiashi about Wuye's abilities, but Hiashi insisted he would win.
• Kaguya said she would train Hiashi and Hizashi herself if Hiashi lost, leaving Hiashi determined not to lose.