Chapter Summaries

Kanami and Hinata prepared to leave Konoha to rescue the Seven-Tails’ Jinchuriki, bringing Hanabi and Matatabi with them. After they vanished using the Flying Thunder God Technique, Hiashi was summoned to a Konoha meeting and worried that they might be defecting.

• Hinata told Kanami she had mastered Senjutsu and wanted to fight alongside him, and Kanami agreed to bring her and Hanabi.
• Matatabi agreed to accompany Kanami and Hinata after Kanami explained they were going to stop Akatsuki from collecting Tailed Beasts.
• Kanami sent a Shadow Clone to inform Tsunade before he, Hinata, and Matatabi traveled to the Hyuga Estate.
• Hinata asked Hiashi to let Hanabi join them, and Kanami reassured him until he agreed.
• Hanabi changed into a kimono, and Kanami, Hinata, Hanabi, and Matatabi departed using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• An ANBU summoned Hiashi to a Konoha meeting, and Hiashi worried that Kanami and Hinata might be taking Hanabi and Matatabi to defect.

Tsunade told Konoha’s leaders that Akatsuki had begun moving, then learned Kanami had secretly taken the Two-Tails, Hinata, and Hanabi to Takigakure to rescue Fū, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki. The chapter ended with Tsunade and Hyuga Hiashi wondering why Kanami had brought Hanabi along, while Hiashi worried about his daughters’ safety.

• Tsunade called a meeting and briefed the gathered shinobi on Akatsuki’s new movements and Sunagakure’s intelligence.
• Hyuga Hiashi learned that Kanami had left the village with Tailed Beasts and his daughters, and feared Kanami might be fleeing Konoha.
• After the meeting, Tsunade revealed that Kanami had notified her of his departure, but Hiashi disclosed that Kanami had taken the Tailed Beasts too.
• Tsunade realized Kanami was heading to Takigakure to rescue Fū, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, and wondered whether he planned to trade the Two-Tails or attack Akatsuki.
• Hiashi learned that Kanami and Hinata had deceived him about their trip and became alarmed that they had taken Hanabi into danger.

Kanami, Hinata Hyuga, and Hanabi continued toward Takigakure, with Kanami exhausted from repeatedly using the Flying Thunder God Technique. Elsewhere, Deidara and Sasori attacked Sunagakure and clashed with its Fifth Kazekage, Gaara.

• Hanabi asked Hinata Hyuga how much farther they had to travel, and Hinata promised they could visit the Land of Hot Water on their return.
• Kanami told Hanabi he could not speed up further, then teased her and carried her under his arm as they continued toward Takigakure.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived at Sunagakure, where Deidara killed a guard who tried to signal the village with an Explosive Tag.
• Gaara confronted Deidara and Sasori, stopped Sasori's mechanical tail with sand, and defended himself against Deidara's clay bombs.
• Gaara sent a mass of sand toward Deidara, who escaped by flying upward on his clay bird.

Gaara fought Deidara while protecting Sunagakure, spending much of his chakra to shield the village from explosive clay. After the villagers retreated, Deidara appeared beside Gaara, but Gaara’s sand trap caught only a decoy as Deidara’s voice came from above him.

• Deidara took to the sky and attacked while Sasori watched from the ground, and Gaara told the Sunagakure Jonin not to interfere.
• Deidara dropped Clay Spiders over the village, and Gaara raised a sand barrier to block them.
• Deidara detonated the clay bombs, breaking apart Gaara’s sand defense and forcing Gaara to use more chakra to keep debris from falling on the village.
• Kankuro and Temari urged the villagers to retreat to the shelter, and Gaara continued protecting them as he wondered whether he had caught up to Naruto.
• Deidara appeared beside Gaara, who trapped and crushed him with sand, but the trapped figure proved to be a decoy as Deidara’s voice sounded above him.

Gaara survived Deidara’s explosive clay clone with an enormous sand defense, but he believed Shukaku had protected him until Shukaku told him to look up. Gaara recognized the sand’s shape as his mother’s as Kakashi, Might Guy, and Sasuke raced toward Sunagakure.

• Deidara’s clay clone exploded near Gaara, leaving him badly injured but suspended by a huge woman-shaped sand defense.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, and Sasuke heard the explosion and sped toward Sunagakure, with Might Guy opening the Seventh Gate and Sasuke using Curse Mark Level Two.
• Deidara told Sasori he had held back and praised Gaara for forming a powerful defense in time.
• Gaara realized he had only moved the clay clone outward and had not created the sand defense himself.
• Shukaku urged Gaara to look up, and Gaara recognized the sand’s shape as his mother.

Gaara learned that the sand protecting him carried his mother Karura’s love, but Shukaku refused to help him fight Deidara. Might Guy arrived to support Gaara and stopped Sasori’s poisoned tail just before it struck.

• Gaara realized Karura’s love had been protecting him through the sand, while Shukaku mocked him and refused to lend him power.
• Gaara confronted Deidara as the Fifth Kazekage, but Deidara prepared to attack him with a clay spider.
• Might Guy arrived and kicked Deidara off the white bird, sending him crashing into the ground.
• Gaara recognized Might Guy as Rock Lee’s teacher, and Guy was surprised to learn that the battered man was the Kazekage.
• Gaara spotted Sasori sneaking up on Might Guy and warned him, but Might Guy turned and caught Sasori’s poisoned mechanical tail in one hand.

Might Guy shattered Sasori’s poisoned mechanical tail with his bare hand and revealed that his kick had nearly killed Deidara. Gaara received chakra from Shukaku and confronted Deidara, determined to avenge his mother.

• Might Guy crushed Sasori’s mechanical tail without being injured, leaving Sasori unsure how to fight him.
• Deidara regained consciousness but could barely move, and Might Guy remarked that an ordinary kick could not kill someone outright.
• Shukaku lent Gaara chakra, and Gaara thanked him before flying toward Deidara.
• Deidara used hidden Clay Spiders to trigger an explosion beneath Gaara, but Shukaku’s Shield blocked it.
• Gaara told Deidara he would not let him live after he had hurt Gaara’s mother.

Gaara battled Deidara, who revealed his ultimate explosive technique by turning himself into a living bomb. Kakashi sent the blast into the Kamui Dimension, where Tobi was caught in its shockwave and used Izanagi to survive.

• Gaara's grief over his mother enraged him, and he attacked Deidara with Shukaku's Spear.
• Deidara used a clay-body explosion to fake his death, then revealed the mouth sewn shut on his chest and chose to make himself his ultimate artwork.
• Gaara pierced Deidara with Shukaku's Spear, but Deidara's body turned transparent as he prepared to detonate himself.
• Kakashi used Lightning Cutter to interrupt Deidara's explosion, then activated Kamui and sent the blast into the Kamui Dimension.
• Tobi encountered the blast inside the Kamui Dimension and activated Izanagi as its shockwave erupted.

Kakashi Hatake transported Deidara’s explosive attack into the Kamui Dimension, forcing Obito Uchiha to sacrifice his left Sharingan with Izanagi before escaping. In Sunagakure, Might Guy struck the retreating Sasori and discovered that his body was not human.

• Obito Uchiha used Izanagi to survive Deidara’s explosion in the Kamui Dimension, sacrificing his left Sharingan.
• Obito Uchiha rejoined Itachi Uchiha and hurried with him to search for the Four-Tails or Five-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Kakashi Hatake introduced himself to Gaara after transporting away Deidara’s explosive attack, and Gaara thanked him.
• Might Guy joked with Kakashi about the Eight Gates, while Sasori assessed the odds and tried to flee.
• Might Guy appeared behind Sasori and punched him, sending him flying across the sand.
• Might Guy rushed to Sasori and was startled when cracks sounded from the fallen body and he saw what it contained.

Might Guy, Kakashi, and Gaara confronted Sasori, who revealed himself as a Humanoid Puppet controlling more than a hundred poisoned puppets. As Kakashi attacked Sasori, Guy’s poisoned wound took effect and left him unable to fight.

• Might Guy dodged a blade from underground and struck two Humanoid Puppets, but the second one cut his arm with hidden blades.
• Gaara recognized the red-haired puppet as Sasori of the Red Sands and recalled Chiyo’s account of his past.
• Sasori recognized Kakashi as the White Fang of the Leaf and sent poisoned puppets to attack Kakashi and Gaara.
• Gaara destroyed the puppets attacking him, while Kakashi used a Lightning Release Clone to send lightning through Sasori’s puppets and chakra threads.
• Sasori severed the threads and blocked Kakashi’s Lightning Cutter with poisoned puppets as Guy tried to assist.
• The poison from Sasori’s blades numbed Guy’s muscles, forced him out of the sixth gate, and left him unable to support Kakashi.

Gaara defended Kakashi from Sasori and sent him to get Might Guy treated, while Sasuke arrived at the battlefield. Sasori revealed that he had turned the Third Kazekage into a Human Puppet, provoking Gaara into attacking as the puppet unleashed Iron Sand.

• Gaara blocked Sasori's attack on Kakashi with Shukaku's Shield, and Kakashi carried the poisoned Might Guy toward Sunagakure to find Chiyo.
• Gaara warned Sasuke not to interfere, while Sasuke dismissed Gaara and thought he relied on the power of the monster inside him.
• Sasori recalled his puppets and summoned the Third Kazekage as a Human Puppet, revealing that it retained its abilities from life.
• Sasori taunted Gaara about his mother, and Gaara charged at him in fury.
• The Third Kazekage Human Puppet used Magnet Release: Iron Sand Drizzle, forming a mass of Iron Sand behind it.

Gaara used Shukaku’s chakra to overwhelm Sasori’s Third Kazekage puppet and crush it. Sasori revealed his own puppet body as his final work of art, but Gaara trapped him in a binding mass of sand as Granny Chiyo arrived.

• Gaara called on Shukaku’s power and sent a vast tide of sand against Sasori’s Iron Sand.
• Sasuke watched the battle helplessly and resented that Gaara possessed power from a Tailed Beast.
• Gaara buried and crushed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet with Sand Burial.
• Sasori revealed the puppet mechanisms in his own body and declared himself his final work of art.
• Gaara caught Sasori in the Shukaku-shaped sand claw with Sand Binding Prison as Granny Chiyo called out to him.

Gaara subdued Sasori after Sasori attacked Chiyo, who tried to reach her grandson by showing him the puppets of his parents. Chiyo ultimately used the parent puppets to kill Sasori, leaving the three of them together in his final moment.

• Sasori escaped Gaara’s Sand Binding Prison but lost both arms, which Gaara’s sand dragged underground and crushed.
• Chiyo rushed to Sasori and tried to speak with him, but Sasori attacked her and Gaara shielded her.
• Sasori taunted Chiyo about Kakashi Hatake and offered to turn her into a Human Puppet, while Chiyo rejected his claim that puppets could be eternal.
• Chiyo summoned the puppets of Sasori’s parents and asked him to come back, but Sasori charged at her and Gaara trapped him in sand.
• Chiyo asked Gaara to let Sasori’s parents bring him back onto the right path, then sent their puppets to pierce Sasori’s Human Puppet heart.
• Sasori accepted his parents’ blades and died, saying he wanted the three of them to remain eternally in that moment.

After Sunagakure’s battle, Chiyo reunited with Sasori and Might Guy began recovering from poison. Kanami and his companions reached Takigakure, where Fū welcomed them and befriended Hanabi.

• Sasuke watched Gaara, Sasori, and Chiyo’s battle and resolved to become strong enough to protect Naruto.
• Chiyo and Ebizo took Sasori and his parents home, while Gaara brought Sasuke back to Sunagakure.
• Kakashi told Gaara that Guy’s chakra was disrupted by poison, and Chiyo said he would recover after about two days of rest.
• Kanami, Hinata, Hanabi, and Matatabi arrived at Takigakure, where Fū greeted Kanami and Hinata.
• Fū introduced herself to Hanabi, declared them friends, and wondered how many friends she had made so far.

Kanami warned Fū that Akatsuki was targeting her, then Hidan and Kakuzu arrived to capture the Tailed Beasts. Kakuzu mistook Kanami for the infamous Red before learning his name, and Kanami prepared to fight the pair.

• Kanami told Fū that Akatsuki was hunting Tailed Beasts and that she was a target, while Fū insisted she could protect her friends.
• Chomei sensed danger, and Matatabi warned Kanami that someone was approaching.
• Kanami sent Hinata and Hanabi into Takigakure before Hidan and Kakuzu appeared and claimed they would each take a target.
• Kakuzu mistook Kanami’s red hair for Red’s and relaxed after Kanami gave his name; Hidan mocked Kakuzu for being afraid.
• Kanami told Fū to stay back and began shaking the ground as he prepared to fight Hidan and Kakuzu.

Kanami used Wood Release to defeat Kakuzu and trap the immortal Hidan, while Hinata and Fū watched from behind the waterfall. With Kakuzu crushed and Hidan still alive, Kanami wondered about Hidan’s immortality and taunted him about wanting his blood.

• Kanami’s Wood Release pierced Hidan and lifted him into the air, while Kakuzu dodged the trees closing around him.
• Kakuzu unleashed Earth Grudge Fear Mode and combined Fire Release with Wind Release, but his flames only scorched the trees before they grew back.
• Kanami compressed the trees and crushed Kakuzu, while Hidan recognized the black threads squeezed from the wreckage as evidence that his teammate was dead.
• Hinata watched through her Byakugan and relaxed, while Fū praised Kanami for defeating the pair so easily.
• Kanami questioned how Hidan could survive losing so much blood, and Hidan challenged him to come closer as Kanami asked if he wanted his blood.

Kanami defeated Hidan, burned his head, and disposed of Hidan and Kakuzu’s bodies after confirming that Hidan’s supposed immortality had limits. With the fight over, Fū invited Kanami to look around Takigakure.

• Kanami beheaded Hidan after Hidan challenged him to provide blood for the Jashin Ritual.
• Hidan called for Kakuzu’s help, but Kanami and Fū knew Kakuzu was already dead.
• Kanami burned Hidan’s head with Ghost Lantern Techniques, and Hidan eventually fell silent.
• Kanami used Earth Release to drop Hidan and Kakuzu into a pit, then left the pit unfilled.
• Fū invited Kanami to tour Takigakure, and Kanami agreed.

Otsutsuki Toneri appeared at the Hyuga training grounds and revealed himself as a member of the Main Family from the moon. He proposed that the Hyuga cooperate with him to protect the Ninja World by reshuffling it, leaving Hiashi wary of his true intentions.

• Hyuga Hiashi watched the clan train and pushed Hyuga Ko to work harder while continuing to treat Main House and Branch House members alike.
• Otsutsuki Toneri appeared behind Hiashi and used the Giant Tenseigan's pressure to restrain the Hyuga, then tried to take Hiashi's eyes.
• Hiashi activated his Byakugan and struck at Toneri with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, but the attack passed through him.
• Toneri identified himself as a member of the Main Family, and Hiashi connected him to the Hyuga clan's records about Hamura Otsutsuki and the moon.
• Toneri revealed that his puppets had subdued the Hyuga who went to summon Tsunade, then asked the clan to cooperate in protecting the Ninja World.
• When Hiashi asked how he planned to protect the Ninja World, Toneri said he would reshuffle it.

Otsutsuki Toneri explained his plan to end the Ninja World’s wars by reshaping it with the Tenseigan, asking Hyuga Hiashi to surrender his Byakugan. Hiashi rejected Toneri’s terms and demanded that Toneri share the Hamura bloodline power with the Hyuga instead.

• Toneri told Hiashi that he would start and end the Fourth Shinobi World War to prevent any future wars.
• Toneri asked Hiashi for his Byakugan so he could awaken the Tenseigan and reshape the Ninja World.
• Hiashi explained the Tenseigan’s requirements and its connection to the Hamura bloodline and the giant Golden Tenseigan on the moon.
• Hyuga Ko activated his Byakugan and warned Hiashi not to give in, while Toneri said Ko’s eyes could serve as another candidate.
• Hiashi refused to hand over his eyes and proposed that Toneri cooperate with the Hyuga by sharing the Hamura bloodline power so they could awaken two Tenseigan.
• Toneri rejected Hiashi’s proposal and demanded his eyes again.

Otsutsuki Toneri sent his Puppet Army to seize the Hyuga clansmen’s Byakugan, trapping Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ko inside the training ground. Hiashi and Ko unleashed Revolving Heaven to destroy the puppets, but Toneri remained unharmed and continued approaching them.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ko realized Toneri’s puppets had surrounded the training ground and captured Hyuga Longjing before he could alert the Hokage.
• Toneri ordered his Puppet Army into the training ground, where the puppets restrained the Hyuga clansmen and overwhelmed Ko and Hiashi.
• Toneri approached Hiashi and demanded the Hyuga clan’s eyes while the captive clansmen urged Hiashi not to give up.
• Hiashi and Ko used Revolving Heaven together, destroying the surrounding puppets and scattering the restrained clansmen.
• Toneri emerged completely unharmed, leaving Hiashi stunned as he continued to approach.