Recaps

Hyuga Hitoshi maneuvered the Uchiha and Konoha’s leaders into conflict while preparing the Hyuga Clan to leave the village. As Fugaku brought ANBU suspects to a public trial, Asuma warned Hiruzen that the Uchiha had rebelled.

• After the Nine-Tails Attack, Hitoshi defended the Uchiha at Konoha’s leadership meeting and chose a new Hyuga settlement beside the Uchiha grounds.
• Hitoshi strengthened his hold over the Hyuga, discovered a passage to the moon, and began exploring ways to make the clan’s departure from Konoha possible.
• Hitoshi encouraged Fugaku to confront village surveillance and planted suspicions that Hiruzen and Danzo had caused the Nine-Tails Attack and blamed the Uchiha.
• On the moon, Hitoshi disguised himself as Otsutsuki Kaichu and manipulated Toneri into killing children from the main family.
• Hitoshi told Hiashi and Hizashi to earn battlefield merit and prepare elites for a retreat, while Sasuke unexpectedly called him “Dad.”
• Fugaku captured ANBU monitoring the Uchiha and presented them to villagers as suspects connected to the Nine-Tails rampage, with Hitoshi amplifying Kakashi’s doubts about Hiruzen.
• Hiruzen pursued school reforms promoting loyalty to the Hokage, while Asuma warned him that the Uchiha had rebelled.

Hyuga Hitoshi turned the Nine-Tails controversy and Konoha’s war crisis to his advantage while preparing the Hyuga Clan’s move to the moon. He took control of the moon’s Otsutsuki, freed Kaguya’s consciousness, and set out with her as his power grew.

• Uchiha Satoshi and Fugaku accused Konoha’s leadership of keeping the Uchiha from stopping the Nine-Tails, and the villagers turned their anger toward Sarutobi, Danzo, and Kakashi.
• Sarutobi assigned the Uchiha to guard Konoha and the Hyuga to remain with them, while Hitoshi accepted the duty and challenged Sarutobi to lead the fight against Kumogakure.
• Hitoshi awakened Byakugan—Coercion, revealed the Hyuga Clan’s connection to the moon’s Otsutsuki, and persuaded Kakashi to follow him after telling him Obito had controlled the Nine-Tails.
• Hitoshi led Hyuga elites to the moon, where his followers stirred conflict between the Otsutsuki Main and Branch Families, and Hamura’s remnant soul asked for his help with the clan and other dangers.
• Hitoshi found Hamura’s hidden inheritance, planned to become head of the Otsutsuki, and used Mr. 91 Gold’s ten-day boost while developing his Tenseigan power.
• As Konoha’s war against Kumogakure stalled, Danzo proposed strategies involving a retreat, Iwagakure, and triggering Killer B’s Eight-Tails Rampage.
• Hitoshi used the Energy Vessel Tenseigan to implant a false memory of Hagoromo’s prophecy, declared himself Clan Head, and reorganized the Otsutsuki as the Moon Clan.
• Hitoshi drew Kaguya’s consciousness from the Six Paths Chibaku Tensei into a replica body, then left the Secret Chamber with her as his Intangible Teleportation strengthened.

Hyuga Hitoshi captured Yugito, challenged Danzo’s influence in Konoha, and led the Hyuga Clan into battle against Kumogakure and Iwagakure. The arc ended with Hitoshi fighting the Raikage and Killer B while rescuing wounded Hyuga on the battlefield.

• Hyuga Hitoshi captured Yugito Nii and brought her back to Konoha, where Danzo returned to a hero’s welcome as Tsunade confronted him.
• When Kumogakure and Iwagakure attacked Konoha together, Hitoshi and Uchiha Fugaku challenged the village leadership and secured concessions for their clans.
• Hitoshi organized the Hyuga Clan for battle, sent Pakura to watch over the house, and led his forces toward the front.
• The Raikage and Ōnoki agreed to divide Konoha’s spoils, then launched separate attacks against the Uchiha and Hyuga strongholds.
• Hitoshi used a shared chakra network and explosive arrows to devastate the advancing Kumogakure forces as the Raikage and Killer B confronted him.
• Tsunade faced the bloody battlefield while Hitoshi fought the Raikage and Killer B, then pushed through enemy lines to protect and treat wounded Hyuga clan members.

Hyuga Hitoshi exposed the leaders’ secret plans to seize the Uchiha and Hyuga kekkei genkai, then rejected Konoha’s demands and led his clan away from the village. Fugaku pledged Uchiha support as Hitoshi connected with the Tenseigan and the war’s political order collapsed.

• Fugaku and Shisui battled Ōnoki’s forces while Kakashi used Kamui to save Shisui, and Konoha eventually drove Ōnoki into retreat.
• Hyuga Hitoshi helped the Hyuga survive Kumogakure’s attack, then strengthened his alliance with Fugaku as the Uchiha arrived to support them.
• Hitoshi rescued Uzumaki Reina and Karin, defeated Sasori and Kakuzu’s group, and brought the survivors to Konoha while Danzo warned Sarutobi that Hitoshi’s power threatened his position.
• Faulty supplies sabotaged Konoha’s offensive, and Hitoshi forced Sarutobi to execute Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura for embezzlement and sabotage.
• As the villages negotiated a ceasefire, Hitoshi refused to let the Hyuga pay reparations, humiliated the Raikage and Daimyo, and stood by Fugaku as the Uchiha rejected Sarutobi’s demand.
• Ōnoki, the Raikage, and Danzo secretly planned to obtain the Byakugan and Sharingan, while Hitoshi recorded their meeting and prepared his clan for an attack.
• Kumogakure and Iwagakure squads attacked the Uchiha and Hyuga grounds on the night before the Alliance Treaty celebration, and Hitoshi later projected footage exposing Danzo’s dealings with the Kage.
• When Ōnoki and A demanded Konoha’s kekkei genkai as the price of peace, Hitoshi defeated them, killed Enichi Kyū, connected with the lunar Tenseigan, and led the Hyuga in discarding their Konoha headbands as Fugaku pledged Uchiha support.