Chapter Summaries

After the Nine-Tails Attack devastated Konoha and killed the Fourth Hokage, Hyuga Hitoshi reflected on the clan’s survival and the village’s history of sacrificing its members. Yuhi Shin'en told him that the village leaders had gathered to discuss rebuilding and the Hokage position.

• Konoha’s survivors surveyed the destruction and mourned those lost in the Nine-Tails Attack.
• Hizashi praised Hyuga Hitoshi for protecting the Hyuga Clan, while another clan member warned him to keep his words cautious.
• Hyuga Hitoshi considered the Hyuga Clan’s wartime losses and the sacrifices it might face in the coming conflict with Kumogakure.
• Yuhi Shin'en approached Hyuga Hitoshi and told him that the village’s upper ranks had gathered for a meeting chaired by the former Third Hokage.
• Yuhi Shin'en revealed that the meeting would address rebuilding Konoha and the Hokage position.

Hitoshi Hyuga attended a meeting to choose Konoha’s new leader after the village’s disaster, while secretly maneuvering to use the Uchiha’s ambitions for his own clan’s benefit. He arrived at the command post as the meeting was about to begin, where the Third Hokage and other village leaders had gathered.

• Hiashi Hyuga and Hizashi Hyuga considered whether their clan could pursue the Hokage position, while Hitoshi rejected the idea of taking responsibility for Konoha.
• Hitoshi praised Uchiha Fugaku as a suitable village chief, and Fugaku arrived, thanked him, and asked him to speak in his favor at the meeting.
• Hitoshi planned to encourage the Uchiha’s resentment if they were blamed for the Nine-Tails Attack and forced to move to the village’s outskirts.
• As Hitoshi and Fugaku discussed rebuilding Konoha on the way to the command post, Hitoshi’s Golden Finger slightly strengthened his ocular power.
• Hitoshi entered the meeting room, where Konoha’s leaders, including the Third Hokage, had assembled for a meeting about the village’s future.

At a meeting after the Nine-Tails Attack, Utatane Koharu tried to blame the Uchiha and push them out of the village’s center, while Uchiha Fugaku protested. Hitoshi Hyuga defended the Uchiha and claimed the adjoining site on the reconstruction map for the Hyuga Clan, leaving the clans’ relocation settled.

• Utatane Koharu blamed Kushina’s childbirth for weakening the seal and suggested that the Uchiha had controlled the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Fugaku realized the meeting was meant to make the Uchiha bear the blame and argued that his clan had not caused the attack.
• Hitoshi Hyuga said the Uchiha had served the village and that Konoha’s Uchiha Clan was not responsible for the disaster.
• Utatane Koharu challenged Hitoshi to relocate the Hyuga alongside the Uchiha, and Hitoshi claimed the vacant site beside the Uchiha Clan Grounds on the reconstruction map.

Hyuga Hitoshi chose a plot near the Uchiha Clan on Konoha’s relocation map, confusing the other leaders while the Third Hokage secured his return to power. Back at the Hyuga grounds, Hitoshi entered an inspired state and turned to improving his Sage Transformation.

• Hyuga Hitoshi chose an open plot near the Uchiha Clan, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen, the advisors, Danzo, and other clan leaders puzzled.
• Nara Shikaku tentatively nominated Tsunade, but the Advisor Group rejected her because her whereabouts were uncertain and she was estranged from Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen declared he would lead the village until its younger generation matured, and the clans supported his return as Hokage while Danzo seethed.
• Uchiha Fugaku apologized to Hyuga Hitoshi for the Hyuga Clan being drawn into the Uchiha’s troubles, and Hitoshi asked the Uchiha to avoid causing scenes near their new neighbors.
• Hyuga Hitoshi returned to his clan grounds, recognized that his Golden Finger had rewarded his relocation choice, and drank strong alcohol to enter Drunkard State and improve the Hyuga Style Sage Transformation.

Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi discussed Hitoshi’s authority and his promise to end the Caged Bird seal for branch-family newborns. After awakening from an epiphany beside Pakura, Hitoshi learned that Hiashi and Hizashi had been waiting to see him.

• Hizashi worried that the elders might criticize Hitoshi over relocating the clan lands, but Hiashi explained that Hitoshi had already established firm control over them.
• Hiashi recalled Hitoshi’s pledge to strengthen the Hyuga Clan, protect both main and branch families, and stop placing the Caged Bird seal on branch-family newborns.
• Hiashi concluded that the clan’s support made Hitoshi unshakable and believed the branch family would not rebel under his leadership.
• Hitoshi woke from his epiphany, confirmed that the Caged Bird seal could not restrain him, and greeted Pakura, who had stood guard nearby.
• Hyuga Gyuba told Hitoshi that Hiashi and Hizashi had been waiting, and Hitoshi had him bring them in.

Hyuga Hitoshi learned that his clan had found a strange cave that matched the hidden passage he had ordered them to search for. He concluded it led to the moon and resolved to make it a stronghold for the Hyuga Clan.

• Hiashi and Hizashi greeted Pakura, and Hitoshi asked where Hizashi's son Neji was.
• Hiashi reported that the Hyuga scouts had found a cave that drained visitors' Chakra, then teleported them away and erased their memories.
• Pakura left after Hitoshi said there were no outsiders present, and he reminded Hiashi to call him Brother Hitoshi in private.
• Hitoshi recognized the cave as a passage to the moon and considered it a safe base for the Hyuga Clan's future.
• Hitoshi declared that the Hyuga would stand in the heavens.

Sarutobi resumed the Hokage position and weighed Konoha’s response to Kumogakure’s border probing while rejecting Danzo’s plan to surveil the Hyuga Clan. Later, Hyuga Pakura kicked Hitoshi out of bed, and he left with a map from Hyuga Hiashi under the cover of night.

• Danzo warned Sarutobi that Kumogakure might invade and urged him to send more Hyuga shinobi to the border.
• Sarutobi revealed that suspicious infiltrators had already been detected by the Hyuga Clan’s Scout Team.
• Danzo proposed using Root to monitor the Hyuga Clan, but Sarutobi forbade it and asserted his authority as Hokage.
• Sarutobi privately considered using the battlefield to weaken and draw the Hyuga Clan closer to the village.
• Hyuga Pakura kicked Hitoshi out of bed, and he dressed, took the map Hyuga Hiashi had sent, and looked toward the night sky.

Hyuga Hitoshi left Konoha at night and reached a mysterious passage, having decided to prepare his clan to leave the village after a coming conflict with Kumogakure. He sent a Shadow Clone inside to investigate the passage and establish a coordinate on the moon.

• Hyuga Hitoshi reasoned that the coming conflict over Kumogakure's scouts and the Byakugan would make staying loyal to Konoha untenable, so he planned to give his clan a battle that would expose the village's hypocrisy and help them leave willingly.
• Hyuga Hitoshi arrived at a concealed cave and used his Byakugan to examine its entrance, noting its illusion, Chakra-draining effects, and memory-erasing consequences.
• Hyuga Hitoshi created a Shadow Clone and instructed it to scout the passage, find a concealed location, and leave behind a coordinate.
• The Shadow Clone activated Hyuga Style Ninjutsu and charged into the cave.

Hyuga Hitoshi learned that the moon’s passage led to a settled Otsutsuki community where a coup had not yet begun, and he considered how to take control of the moon and its Tenseigan. After returning home, he met with Uchiha Fugaku, who had come to discuss ANBU monitoring the Uchiha Clan.

• Hyuga Hitoshi analyzed the moon’s history and concluded that the Tenseigan could be a threat to his plans.
• His Shadow Clone returned from the moon with information about the passage, the moon’s environment, and the Otsutsuki clansmen’s low vigilance.
• Hyuga Hitoshi recorded the moon’s coordinates, returned to his residence, and went to sleep beside Hyuga Pakura.
• Uchiha Fugaku arrived at the Hyuga Clan’s reception room to see Hyuga Hitoshi, who appeared later in the day and greeted him warmly.
• Fugaku said he had come because the Uchiha clansmen suspected that ANBU was monitoring their clan.

Hyuga Hitoshi urged Uchiha Fugaku to treat the village’s surveillance of the Uchiha as a threat to the Konoha Military Police Force and arrest the spies. Fugaku left to discuss the plan with his clan, while Hitoshi intended to encourage a sharper Uchiha response and draw attention away from the Hyuga.

• Uchiha Fugaku vented to Hyuga Hitoshi about the village’s surveillance of his clan and asked what he should do.
• Hyuga Hitoshi argued that the Military Police Force could justifiably arrest people spying on its operations, even if they were ANBU.
• Fugaku agreed that the advice made sense but said he needed to discuss it with the Uchiha clansmen first.
• Hyuga Hitoshi resolved to keep fueling the conflict between the Uchiha and the village’s leaders, believing a tougher Uchiha stance could help the clan.
• Before Fugaku left, Hyuga Hitoshi reminded him that the Senju and Uchiha clans had founded Konoha together.

Hyuga Hitoshi focused on strengthening the Hyuga Clan and demonstrated Chakra Nature Transformation to its elite guards. The training ended with a devastating display that left the clansmen stunned by what their clan head called a basic technique.

• Yuhi Kurenai visited Hyuga Hitoshi and warned him that her father had told her to avoid the Uchiha.
• Hyuga Hitoshi learned that Asuma was training his lower body according to the True Man Guide he had given him.
• Hyuga Hitoshi led Yuhi Kurenai to the clan’s training grounds, where Hyuga Gyuba had gathered the elite guard unit.
• Hyuga Hitoshi demonstrated Chakra Nature Transformation by enveloping himself in flames and unleashing a powerful attack that created a vast crater.

Hyuga Hitoshi taught the clan members a simplified Formless Style and planned to raise their combat abilities further with Sage Mode. While eating dango with Yuhi Kurenai and Anko, he reflected on Orochimaru’s early defection and sensed that Fugaku and his brothers were about to make their move.

• Hyuga Hitoshi had Hyuga Gyuba demonstrate the Budget Formless Style and passed its techniques and chakra circulation route to him.
• Hyuga Hitoshi explained that the clan members could develop their own Formless Style techniques and later support the move with Budget Sage Mode.
• Hyuga Hitoshi considered improving Sage Mode and studying Byakugan purification, then recalled that his research showmanship had helped drive Orochimaru from Konoha early.
• Hyuga Hitoshi ate dango with Yuhi Kurenai and Anko, who dismissed his claim that Orochimaru had respected him.
• Hyuga Hitoshi sensed that Fugaku and his brothers would soon make their move.

Fugaku followed Hyuga Hitoshi’s advice by increasing Uchiha patrols and preparing to arrest ANBU spies, while Sarutobi Hiruzen remained unsure of the clan’s intentions. As Hitoshi left Anko and Yuhi Kurenai’s courtyard, he decided to travel to the moon and inspect its coordinates himself.

• Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to intensify patrols and inspect everyone and everything entering the village, planning to use the effort to justify arrests.
• Fugaku and Hyuga Hitoshi exchanged a knowing look, each believing their cooperation would help them gain power and influence.
• Yuhi Shin'en reported to Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Uchiha had not resisted relocation or surveillance and had instead increased their patrols.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen dismissed Yuhi Shin'en, wondered what the Uchiha were planning, and turned his attention to troubling intelligence from the border.
• Hyuga Hitoshi fled Anko and Yuhi Kurenai’s courtyard after their game of Fight the Landlord, then sensed the coordinates on the moon and decided to go there himself.

Hyuga Hitoshi infiltrated the moon by killing an Otsutsuki clansman and taking his identity as Otsutsuki Kaichu. He set out to exploit the tensions between the branch and main families, unaware that the clan’s Byakugan rules made discovery less likely than he feared.

• Hyuga Hitoshi emerged on the moon using Kinshiki's Intangible Teleportation and cautiously approached the lunar settlement.
• He killed a lone Otsutsuki clansman, took the body into his Space-Time, and disguised himself in the man's clothes.
• Hyuga Hitoshi adopted the identity of Otsutsuki Kaichu, a branch-family leader who favored negotiating with the main family.
• He planned to kill a main-family hardliner and leave the corpse in public to inflame tensions, though he had actually killed a moderate branch-family representative.
• Hyuga Hitoshi spotted an interesting scene and went to investigate, while the narration explained that Otsutsuki clansmen avoided using the Byakugan on each other because of an old peeping scandal.

Hyuga Hitoshi intervened in the Otsutsuki Clan’s abuse of the blind Toneri and used genjutsu to make Toneri kill the main family children who had bullied him. He left a disguised Shadow Clone on the moon to observe the clan, then returned to watch for the Old Village Chief’s response to events in the Shinobi World.

• Hyuga Hitoshi saw main family children tormenting the blind Otsutsuki Toneri and recognized Toneri’s hidden hatred of the main family.
• Hyuga Hitoshi slapped Otsutsuki Kaichu, condemned the children’s treatment of Toneri, and put a kunai in Toneri’s hand.
• Hyuga Hitoshi used genjutsu to control Toneri and make him kill the main family children who had bullied him.
• Toneri left to report the killings to his father, while Hyuga Hitoshi considered how the incident could fuel conflict between the branch and main families.
• Hyuga Hitoshi left Teleportation Coordinates and a Shadow Clone disguised as Otsutsuki Kaichu to investigate the clan, then departed through a Space Vortex.

Hyuga Hitoshi coached Uchiha Fugaku on how to challenge the Third Hokage with more than a simple arrest. He suggested linking the Uchiha’s move to a hallucinogenic drug and the circumstances of Uzumaki Kushina’s delivery, leaving Fugaku imagining a far-reaching conspiracy.

• Fugaku visited Hyuga Hitoshi during the Hyuga Clan’s relocation and praised him for winning his clansmen’s respect.
• Fugaku said he planned to have the Konoha Military Police Force arrest suspicious individuals and demand an explanation from the Third Hokage.
• Hyuga Hitoshi pointed out that Fugaku had no plan to secure tangible benefits for the Uchiha after the arrests.
• Fugaku asked Hyuga Hitoshi for guidance, and Hitoshi explained that a combo of moves could be more effective than a single public challenge.
• Hyuga Hitoshi said a hallucinogenic drug could trigger tailed-beast rampages and connected Snake Man’s laboratory to the Old Village Chief.
• Hyuga Hitoshi told Fugaku that Sarutobi Biwako had delivered Uzumaki Kushina, prompting Fugaku to imagine a grand conspiracy.

Hyuga Hitoshi invented a conspiracy theory blaming the Third Hokage for unleashing the Nine-Tails and framing the Uchiha, and Uchiha Fugaku believed him. Hitoshi directed Fugaku to blame Danzo publicly, hoping to undermine the Third without provoking a deadly fight with the Uchiha.

• Hyuga Hitoshi told Uchiha Fugaku that the Third had exposed Orochimaru’s experiments, unleashed the Nine-Tails during Kushina’s childbirth, and pinned the attack on the Uchiha to regain power.
• Uchiha Fugaku accepted the theory and grew furious that the Third had supposedly sacrificed Konoha’s people and blamed his clan.
• Hyuga Hitoshi realized Fugaku’s belief suggested that villagers might also accept the rumor and damage the Third’s standing.
• When Fugaku asked how the rumor should be handled, Hyuga Hitoshi told him to blame Danzo instead of the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Fugaku agreed enthusiastically that Danzo had done it.

Obito arrived in the Land of Water and vowed to make Kirigakure pay for Rin’s death, while the Fourth Raikage decided to invade a weakened Konoha. The Raikage left his subordinates with a ten-day deadline to win and drink victory wine in Konoha.

• Obito emerged in the Land of Water and declared that he would take revenge on Kirigakure, which he called the Blood Mist.
• Zetsu suspected that Obito knew Madara had manipulated him but was still intent on destroying the world and creating a false one with Rin.
• Mabui reported that Konoha had been devastated by the Nine-Tails attack, Minato had died, and Hiruzen had returned as Hokage.
• The Fourth Raikage dismissed concerns about Konoha’s defenses and ordered Kumogakure to challenge Konoha with raw strength.
• The Fourth Raikage set a goal of drinking victory wine in Konoha within ten days.

Hitoshi Hyuga outlined plans to spread rumors against Konoha’s leadership, investigate Root, and eventually lead the Hyuga Clan out of Konoha. The Hyuga brothers were stunned by his decision, while Hitoshi framed the Senju Clan’s decline as a warning about surrendering a clan’s future to the village.

• Konoha residents gossiped about the Sarutobi clan’s stink and Biwako’s role in the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s birth.
• Hitoshi Hyuga explained how rumors could direct attention toward Orochimaru and instructed his subordinates to investigate Root when the time came.
• Hiashi Hyuga questioned Hitoshi’s confidence in the clan’s future in Konoha, and Hitoshi revealed that he planned to lead the clan out and had found a temporary settlement.
• Hitoshi rejected the ancestors’ decision to join Konoha and argued that the Senju Clan’s integration had caused its name and influence to disappear.
• Hitoshi used the meeting to warn the Hyuga brothers about the risks of dissolving their clan’s identity into Konoha.

Hyuga Hitoshi told Hizashi and Hiashi to restore the clan’s battlefield reputation while preparing to leave Konoha, and he reflected on how the village might mistreat them despite their service. Later, Sasuke called Hitoshi “Dad” in front of Shisui and Itachi, leaving Hitoshi stunned.

• Hyuga Hitoshi instructed Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi to earn merit on the front lines and train elites for a possible retreat from Konoha.
• After the brothers left, Hyuga Pakura criticized Konoha’s leadership, and Hitoshi contrasted the Third Hokage with Rasa.
• Hyuga Pakura spotted a woman carrying a baby and went to greet her while Hitoshi spoke privately with the woman.
• Uchiha Shisui worried that he had witnessed something damaging to the Uchiha Clan’s reputation as Hitoshi took Sasuke from Itachi.
• Sasuke called Hitoshi “Dad,” and Hitoshi swore in shock.