Chapter Summaries

Tsunade and Kaguya argued over who should guide Hyuga Wuye before Tsunade asked him to explain his views on the clan, the village, and his future. Wuye said he wanted to protect the people he cared about, leaving Tsunade hoping he would never be forced to choose between her and Kaguya.

• Tsunade told Kaguya that Wuye would stay with her, then revealed that she was leaving for the front lines with the expedition roster.
• After Kaguya left, Tsunade explained that their differences over talent, clan loyalty, and the village had grown more serious because of Wuye.
• Tsunade pressed Wuye to describe his training goals and decide whether the clan or village came first.
• Wuye said he wanted to learn as many useful techniques as he could and protect both the village and the clan because Tsunade and Kaguya mattered to him.
• When Tsunade asked whom he would support if she and Kaguya clashed, Wuye said he would help himself, then told her to stop tempting fate.

At the Hokage’s full-month celebration, Hyuga Wuye attended with Tsunade’s clone Kazumiya Yukihime and Kushina, who competed for his attention. After the three arrived and teased each other over food and wine, Wuye left them to find Kaguya.

• Kazumiya Yukihime and Kushina argued over who would take Hyuga Wuye to the celebration, then agreed to go with him together.
• Tsunade entered the Sarutobi Estate with Jiraiya and Orochimaru, while Wuye, Kazumiya Yukihime, and Kushina went to see little Asuma and eat at the banquet.
• Kushina offered Wuye fruit wine, and Kazumiya Yukihime objected when she realized Kushina had already drunk from the cup.
• Kazumiya Yukihime offered Wuye a chicken drumstick she had eaten, but he said it was disgusting, prompting Kushina to boast about her closeness with him.
• Wuye left Kazumiya Yukihime and Kushina to find Kaguya.

At a banquet, Hyuga Wuye met Hatake Sakumo and his pregnant wife before the Third Hokage learned Kazumiya Yukihime was staying with Tsunade. Afterward, the Hokage sent Tsunade to the front lines ahead of schedule, while Kushina and Yukihime’s teasing left Wuye wondering if Kushina was helping him.

• Hyuga Wuye met Hatake Sakumo and his pregnant wife, and Tsunade checked that the baby was healthy.
• The Third Hokage publicly welcomed Wuye as his granddisciple and recognized Kazumiya Yukihime hiding behind him.
• After the banquet, the Third Hokage confronted Tsunade about Yukihime and warned her to stay away from Wuye because Kushina liked him.
• The Third Hokage ordered Tsunade to leave for the front lines ahead of schedule, and she agreed.
• Kushina walked Wuye home with Yukihime and asked whether Yukihime liked him, leaving Wuye wondering if she was giving him a divine assist.

Kazumiya Yukihime struggled to admit her feelings for Hyuga Wuye, while she and Kushina competed over him and repeatedly came to blows. Kaguya intervened, invited Wuye to her room, and allowed the two girls to sleep in his room while assigning Wuye to sleep with her.

• Kazumiya Yukihime challenged Kushina to a duel instead of confessing, and Hyuga Wuye tried to defuse the tension by embracing them both.
• Kushina and Kazumiya Yukihime argued and fought outside the Hyuga Clan head's residence until Hyuga Wuye carried them inside.
• Hyuga Hiashi reported the commotion to Kaguya, who used her Byakugan to see Wuye trying to separate the girls on his bed.
• Kaguya summoned Hyuga Wuye, asked him to massage her after her bath, and told Kushina and Kazumiya Yukihime they could sleep in his room while Wuye slept in hers.

As Tsunade prepared to leave for the front lines, Kazumiya Yukihime said goodbye to Hyuga Wuye and confessed her feelings. The chapter ended with her kissing him as Kushina watched.

• Hyuga Wuye received a message that Terumi Mei had been born while he saw Tsunade off at Konoha's gates.
• Tsunade praised Hyuga Wuye for learning her ninjutsu quickly and told him to keep learning while she was away.
• Tsunade arranged for Kazumiya Yukihime to return to the Land of Fire, and Yukihime asked Wuye if he had anything to say before she left.
• Kazumiya Yukihime embraced Wuye, told him she had been happy with him, and confessed that she liked him.
• Kazumiya Yukihime stopped Wuye from replying and kissed him while Kushina watched.

Kazumiya Yukihime left with Tsunade after urging her to confess to Hyuga Wuye herself, while Kushina beat Wuye in a jealous rage. The Nine-Tails then inflamed Kushina’s anger and resentment until she turned on Wuye and threatened to kill him so he would belong to her alone.

• Kushina tackled Kazumiya Yukihime after seeing her kiss Hyuga Wuye, but Kazumiya blocked her punches and left with Tsunade.
• Kushina redirected her anger at Wuye and straddled him, punching him while Kazumiya and Tsunade discussed Tsunade’s feelings.
• Kazumiya told Tsunade that she would understand her affection once the clone’s memories and feelings returned to her, then left with her.
• The Nine-Tails urged Kushina to kill Wuye and stirred her resentment at being made a jinchuriki and kept in the village.
• Kushina’s eyes turned crimson, and she pinned Wuye down, saying that killing him would make him belong to her alone.

Kushina and Hyuga Wuye reconciled after the Nine-Tails tried to turn her against him, and Wuye gave her an A-rank forbidden technique. They entered Kushina’s sealing space to confront the Nine-Tails, where Wuye restrained it and threatened another round of tickling.

• The Third Hokage sensed the Nine-Tails’ chakra, then watched through his crystal ball as Kushina kissed Wuye instead of attacking him.
• Kushina calmed down, and Wuye gave her the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique scroll he had traded for with records of three S-rank missions.
• Wuye and Kushina decided to confront the Nine-Tails for trying to drive them apart and entered the sealing space together.
• They found the Nine-Tails pretending to sleep, but Wuye provoked it into reacting by threatening to tickle it again.
• Wuye used chakra chains to pin the Nine-Tails down and asked if it was ready for another round of fun.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina played a rigged card game with Kurama after it broke its promise not to erode Kushina, then freed it from its restraints inside the sealing space. On their way back, Wuye explained why Kurama could not leave Kushina and proposed studying the Four Symbols Seal to find a way to break their life link.

• Wuye confronted Kurama for breaking its promise and challenged it to a card game, threatening to tickle it for every loss.
• Wuye and Kushina teamed up to play Hokage-themed cards against Kurama, who repeatedly lost and accused them of cheating.
• Wuye and Kushina left the sealing space, and Wuye removed Kurama's restraints so it could roam freely behind the gate.
• Wuye told Kushina that Kurama's life was linked to hers, so releasing it would kill her.
• Wuye suggested studying the Four Symbols Seal to understand and possibly change the link between Kushina and Kurama.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina grew closer while studying the Four Symbols Seal, but three months later war spread across several fronts. The Third Hokage chose to lead Konoha’s defense against Kumogakure himself, while Danzo requested Hyuga Kaguya for his force heading to the Land of Rain.

• Wuye and Kushina discussed sealing techniques before sharing a kiss in the street.
• Three months later, the Third received reports that Hanzo had declared war on three nations and Kumogakure had invaded the Land of Fire’s borderlands.
• Danzo explained the worsening fronts, and the Third ordered him to take two thousand ninja to the Land of Rain while Koharu and Homura defended Konoha against Kirigakure.
• The Third decided to go personally to the Kumogakure battlefield and proposed turning the Raikage against the Land of Earth.
• Danzo asked for Hyuga Kaguya to join his force, alongside Tsunade, the other three, and Hatake Sakumo.

Danzo persuaded the Third to consider sending Hyuga Kaguya to the front lines, while Tsunade’s letter convinced the Third that Hyuga Wuye’s poison research could greatly reduce casualties. As the Third weighed Wuye’s early graduation and squad assignment, Hatake Sakumo rushed to Wuye’s home after hearing his wife was having a difficult delivery.

• Danzo told the Third that Hyuga Kaguya should be sent on dangerous missions and suggested using the Third’s views on Hyuga Wuye to persuade her.
• Hatake Sakumo delivered Tsunade’s letter to the Third, then hurried to Konoha Hospital to be with his wife, Mifu, during childbirth.
• The Third read Tsunade’s report about Chiyo’s poisons and concluded that Wuye should go to the front lines to help Tsunade develop antidotes.
• The Third considered Tsunade and Jiraiya’s recommendations for Wuye and Minato Namikaze to graduate early, while worrying about their squad and Kaguya’s consent.
• Doctors announced that Mifu was having a difficult delivery and called for Wuye, prompting Hatake Sakumo to rush into Wuye’s home and beg him to save her.

Hyuga Wuye saved Hatake Sakumo’s wife and child, then learned that the Third Hokage planned to graduate him and Minato early and send them to the Sand Village front. Kaguya objected to Wuye going to war but agreed he could serve with the medical corps, then offered to lead his team herself.

• Hyuga Wuye helped deliver Hatake Sakumo’s child and saved both the baby and Mifu.
• The Third Hokage told Hatake Sakumo and Hyuga Wuye that Wuye and Minato would graduate early and join Hatake Sakumo’s team, while Kushina would remain at the Academy.
• Kaguya challenged the plan to send Wuye to war, but accepted that he could support Tsunade and the frontline medical corps from the rear.
• Hyuga Wuye agreed to go to the front and asked for Kushina to join his team, but the Third Hokage refused.
• Kaguya offered to lead Wuye’s team herself, leaving the Third Hokage to consider the proposal.

After the Third agreed to consider Kaguya's request, Wuye discussed Kushina and his feelings with his protective sister, who suggested bringing Kushina into the Hyuga Clan. Wuye then visited Kushina and told her to prepare to graduate early so they could join the same team.

• The Third told Kaguya he would consider her request and reply within two days, then paid his respects to Madam Hatake.
• Kaguya worried that Wuye's feelings for Kushina and the Hokage's plans could put him at risk, and said she would go to the battlefield with him if necessary.
• Wuye admitted he could not let Kushina go, so Kaguya proposed making her part of the Hyuga Clan and reminded him that clan law required him to marry a Hyuga.
• Wuye teased Kaguya by asking if he could marry her, and Kaguya blushed before using the Body Flicker Technique to leave.
• Wuye went to the Senju Estate and told Kushina she would need to graduate early and follow Shikaku's plan if she wanted to join his team.
• Kushina learned the plan still had a ninety percent chance of success, hit Wuye for alarming her, and agreed to their playful scheme.

Kushina demanded permission to go to the battlefield with Minato and Wuye, but the Third stalled rather than agreeing. The next morning, Kushina and Wuye used Shadow Clones to paint obscene graffiti on Hokage Rock, and the guards failed to catch her.

• Kushina argued that she was strong enough to go to the battlefield, and the Third struggled to answer her carefully prepared objections.
• The Third suspected Hyuga Wuye and Nara Shikaku had helped Kushina, then told her he would think about her request.
• Kushina warned the Third he would regret delaying his answer, while he secretly watched her and Wuye at home without noticing they were Shadow Clones.
• Wuye and Kushina prepared paint in a small forest, then sent more than a dozen Kushina Shadow Clones to vandalize the Third's face on Hokage Rock.
• The Nine-Tails urged Kushina to paint Hashirama's face as a fox, and she added whiskers to it.
• The Hokage Building guards discovered the graffiti, but Kushina created more than a hundred figures and escaped their pursuit.

Kushina used the Nine-Tails’ chakra to overwhelm the Anbu with thousands of Shadow Clones, helping Wuye pressure the Third Hokage into accepting their demand. The Third agreed on the condition that Wuye’s team prove its strength and control after graduating from the Academy.

• The Third Hokage sent two Anbu to capture Kushina, but she used the Nine-Tails’ chakra to create thousands of Shadow Clones and escape.
• The Anbu gave the Third a note threatening to deface Hokage Rock with an embarrassing drawing, shaking his resolve.
• The Third visited the Hyuga grounds and negotiated with Wuye, who explained how Kushina could evade capture and revealed that he was speaking through a clone.
• The Third agreed to their request but required the team to prove its strength and show it would not lose control after graduating from the Academy.
• Kaguya considered why the Third might choose her as the team’s jonin instructor and thought her Byakugan could improve the team’s safety.

The Third Hokage questioned Hyuga Wuye about his motives and his loyalty to Konoha, then discussed the war in the Land of Rain with him. After Wuye analyzed why small nations became battlefields, the Hokage left him with a warning about the future.

• The Third Hokage sent Kushina home and confronted Wuye about his schemes, his Sharingan, and whether he knew Kazumiya Yukihime's identity.
• Wuye denied acting alone and told the Hokage that he would give his life to protect Konoha and the people he cared about.
• The Third Hokage credited Tsunade's guidance for Wuye's views and said he would go to the battlefield.
• Wuye explained that the Land of Rain served as a buffer between great nations and that wars there spared their homelands from destruction.
• The Third Hokage left Wuye with a warning that the future was in his hands.

Hyuga Wuye, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina graduated early and followed their jonin instructor, Hyuga Kaguya, to the First Training Ground. Kaguya announced that they had to pass a practical test against the Third Hokage before they could become a team.

• A chunin instructor announced that Wuye, Minato, and Kushina would graduate early to serve in the war.
• Wuye thanked the students and hoped they would still be in the village when he returned, while Kushina declared that he belonged to her alone.
• Hyuga Kaguya arrived, introduced herself as the trio's jonin instructor, and ordered them to follow her.
• Kaguya tested the trio's chakra control as they ran across rooftops, walls, and rivers to the First Training Ground.
• Kaguya told Wuye, Minato, and Kushina that their opponent in the practical test would be the Third Hokage.

Hyuga Wuye, Minato, and Kushina faced the Third Hokage in a graduation test where he limited himself to taijutsu. After devising a trap, they drew him into a mass of Kushina's Shadow Clones, but the Third Hokage outmaneuvered Wuye and struck at his back.

• Minato, Hyuga Wuye, and Kushina learned that the Third Hokage would test them using only taijutsu.
• Kushina created a hundred Shadow Clones while Minato and Wuye transformed into her appearance, but the Third Hokage saw through their deception and pursued them through the forest.
• Wuye, Minato, and Kushina hid and discussed ways to restrict the Third Hokage's speed or strength before Wuye devised a plan.
• The Third Hokage followed the footprints to a mass of Kushina's Shadow Clones and charged through them until Wuye attacked with a Chakra Scalpel.
• Wuye used his Sharingan to dodge the Third Hokage's first strike, but the Third Hokage outpaced him and appeared behind him, bringing a fist toward his back.

Hyuga Wuye, Kushina, and Minato worked together to defeat the Third Hokage’s Water Clone using sealing techniques and a combined Adamantine Sealing Chains attack. The Third Hokage praised their teamwork, then sent Minato away while he prepared to verify one final matter with Wuye and Kushina.

• Hyuga Wuye combined the Sharingan and Byakugan to see the Third Hokage’s blind spot and strike his arm with a Chakra Scalpel.
• Wuye and Kushina used the Curse Binding Technique to restrict the Third Hokage while Minato kept attacking him.
• Wuye and Kushina completed the Adamantine Sealing Chains’ hand seals together, binding the Third Hokage long enough for Minato to strike his throat and reveal that he was a Water Clone.
• Wuye exhausted his chakra, and Kushina helped him while Minato watched them cling to each other.
• The real Third Hokage arrived, praised the trio’s teamwork, and told Minato to find Jonin Kaguya before he and the two others verified one final matter.

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina proved to the Third that they could use the Nine-Tails’ chakra without being corrupted and safely stop a rampage. Satisfied with their safeguards, the Third sent them to support the front lines and warned them to keep Kushina’s Tailed Beast Cloak secret.

• The Third asked Hyuga Wuye and Kushina to prove they had reconciled with the Nine-Tails, and Kushina let Kurama lend them chakra for Tailed Beast Cloaks.
• Kushina shared the chakra with Wuye, convincing the Third that Kurama willingly trusted them, though he worried they might be under its control.
• Kushina simulated a rampage by pouncing on Wuye, who used a sealing key to shut off her cloak and restore her seal.
• Wuye explained that he and Kushina each held a sealing key, allowing either of them to close the seal unless both lost consciousness.
• The Third approved them for front-line support under Clan Head Kaguya, told them to prioritize their safety, and ordered them to conceal the Tailed Beast Cloak.

After passing the Third's final test, Kushina and Wuye joined Kaguya's squad, where Kaguya forbade romantic relationships during missions. Meanwhile, Danzo objected to Kushina leaving the village, then considered how he could still use the squad's rescue missions to shape the Land of Rain battlefield.

• Kushina told Wuye she was happy because she could leave the village with him, and the two shared an affectionate moment by a stream.
• Kaguya and Minato found Kushina and Wuye, and Kaguya gave them forehead protectors while banning romantic relationships during squad missions.
• Kushina questioned Wuye about his relationship with Kaguya, then punched and kicked him before leaving with Minato.
• Danzo angrily challenged the Third over sending Kushina to the Land of Rain battlefield under Kaguya's command.
• The Third proposed giving Kaguya Squad rescue missions, and Danzo left believing he could decide what missions they received at the front.