Chapter Summaries

Otsutsuki Toneri stole the Byakugan from Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ko using the Tenseigan’s phasing ability, then returned to the moon with all four eyes to try nurturing them into Tenseigan. Hiashi decided to report the theft and the threat to the Hokage, while Ko and the other injured Hyuga were sent for treatment.

• Otsutsuki Toneri removed both of Hyuga Hiashi’s Byakugan and explained that the Tenseigan granted him the ability to phase through attacks.
• Hyuga Ko used Revolving Heaven to test whether Toneri would become tangible while taking eyes, but Toneri removed Ko’s Byakugan without being stopped.
• Otsutsuki Toneri thanked the Hyuga clansmen and disappeared, taking all four Byakugan back to the moon for ocular gestation.
• Hyuga Hiashi warned that Toneri’s attempt to nurture Tenseigan could bring chaos to the Ninja World.
• Hyuga Hiashi chose to report the incident to the Hokage himself, while the other Hyuga clansmen took Hyuga Ko to the hospital.

Otsutsuki Toneri implanted Hyuga Hiashi’s Byakugan and sensed them responding to his bloodline. Kanami returned to Konoha with Hinata, Hanabi, and Matatabi, where they discovered that Hyuga Hiashi had lost his eyes.

• Otsutsuki Toneri put Hyuga Hiashi’s Byakugan into his own eye sockets and felt his bloodline react to them.
• Kanami and his companions left Takigakure after saying goodbye to Fū, and Kanami reassured Hinata that their visit had been enough to help protect her.
• Kanami repeatedly used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring everyone back toward Konoha, exhausting his Chakra along the way.
• At Konoha’s entrance, Kotetsu Hagane warned Kanami, Hinata, and Hanabi that something had happened to the Hyuga clan.
• Kanami teleported the group to the Hyuga Estate, where they found Hyuga Hiashi’s eyes wrapped in cloth and Hanabi saw that his eyes were gone.

After Otsutsuki Toneri gouged out Hyuga Hiashi’s Byakugan, Kanami blamed himself while Hinata and Hiashi tried to comfort him. Kanami identified Toneri’s ability as Schrödinger’s Projection and realized Yin-Yang Power could counter it, while Hiashi warned that Toneri obtaining the Tenseigan could throw the Ninja World into chaos.

• Hanabi told Hinata that Hyuga Hiashi’s eyes were gone, and Hiashi explained that a man claiming to be from the main family had attacked him.
• Kanami felt responsible for Hiashi’s loss because Toneri had appeared in Konoha after Kanami left to rescue Fū, and Hinata comforted him.
• Hiashi told Kanami and the others how Toneri had appeared and taken his eyes despite being impossible to attack.
• Kanami recognized Toneri’s ability as Schrödinger’s Projection and recalled that Yin-Yang Power had let him intercept it before.
• Kanami explained Toneri’s earlier appearances to Hiashi, who accepted that losing his eyes was less troubling than the possibility of Toneri obtaining the Tenseigan.

Kanami and Hinata resolved to go after Otsutsuki Toneri and recover Hyuga Hiashi's eyes. Kanami implanted Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan to prepare for the fight, while Hinata began investigating whether she could awaken the Tenseigan.

• Kanami realized he needed to locate the passage to the moon and planned to ask Jiraiya to take him to Mount Myoboku for help finding it.
• Hinata insisted on accompanying Kanami, while Hanabi Hyuga vowed to master the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms and began training.
• Kanami promised Hyuga Hiashi he would retrieve his eyes, then used Flying Thunder God to take Hinata and Matatabi home.
• Kanami showed Hinata the Sharingan he had obtained from Danzo and Itachi Uchiha and suggested the giant stone statue might help her awaken the Tenseigan.
• Kanami removed his own eyes and replaced them with Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, finding that they worked comfortably and gave him clear vision.

Kanami tested his Mangekyō Sharingan and discovered he could activate Susanoo, advancing it through several stages. He ended the chapter eager to see whether he could reach the form with legs.

• Kanami activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and felt its physical burden despite his Hashirama Cells.
• Kanami used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to the forest where Samui and another Kumogakure woman were buried.
• Kanami activated Susanoo and formed its basic green skeletal stage, then tested its strength by crushing a tree.
• Kanami advanced Susanoo to its second stage and gained the green Spiral Sword.
• Kanami advanced Susanoo again, covering it in Crow Tengu Armor and summoning a Susanoo Greatsword.
• Kanami prepared to test whether he could reach the next form, where Susanoo grew legs.

Kanami tested the fourth stage of Susanoo and considered Shisui’s Mangekyō abilities, then went to Konoha Hospital to ask Jiraiya for help reaching Mount Myoboku. He revealed he wanted to test his Sharingan on Jiraiya, leaving the request hanging as his Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun.

• Kanami expanded Susanoo to its fourth stage, tested its strength, and dispelled it when the strain on Shisui’s eyes became too much.
• Kanami reviewed the effects and drawbacks of Kotoamatsukami and decided to test it on someone.
• Kanami used Flying Thunder God to reach Konoha Hospital and located Jiraiya with Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.
• Kanami brought Jiraiya fruit and asked him to take him to Mount Myoboku so he could seek the Great Toad Sage and ask about a passage to the moon.
• Kanami told Jiraiya that his other favor was to use him as a test subject for his Sharingan, then revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Kanami tested his Mangekyō Sharingan’s Kotoamatsukami on Jiraiya, who briefly became convinced that Kanami should become the Sixth Hokage before the technique was released. Kanami returned home and found Hinata deep in meditation, where she approached a moving statue resembling Hamura Otsutsuki.

• Kanami used Kotoamatsukami on Jiraiya and implanted the belief that he should support Kanami as the Sixth Hokage.
• Jiraiya urged Kanami to win Tsunade over and said he supported him becoming the Sixth Hokage, then recovered his awareness after Kanami released the technique.
• Kanami returned home and found Hinata meditating while Matatabi watched over her.
• Kanami monitored Hinata’s steady breathing and chakra as she explored the giant stone statue in her consciousness.
• Hinata recognized the statue as resembling Hamura Otsutsuki and watched as it lowered its head and opened its right hand while her pale-purple chakra glow intensified.

Hinata's chakra was drained by Hamura Otsutsuki's statue after she touched its horn, and Kanami appeared to save her by transferring his own chakra. The statue continued absorbing chakra, and a faint glow began pulsing from its chest.

• The statue carried Hinata to its head, where she touched its horn and became unable to release it as it drained her chakra.
• Kanami appeared in Hinata's consciousness and struck the horn, but it healed itself and absorbed her chakra even faster.
• Kanami tried to share chakra with Hinata by holding her hand, but Mū prevented the transfer.
• Kanami entered Sage Mode and used trees to transfer his chakra to Hinata, replenishing her as the statue drained her.
• Hinata decided she would destroy the statue with Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists if Kanami could no longer endure the drain.
• The statue's body began to glow, with something pulsing faintly inside its chest.

Kanami and Hinata escaped the statue’s chakra drain, and Hamura Otsutsuki emerged to explain that the statue had absorbed chakra on its own. Kanami demanded compensation from Hinata’s ancestor, leaving Hinata stunned by his audacity.

• Kanami grew exhausted while feeding chakra to the statue, and Hinata broke free by striking its head with Gentle Step Single Lion Fist.
• Hinata freed her other hand when the statue stopped absorbing her chakra, and she and Kanami reassured each other before agreeing to destroy it completely.
• Hamura Otsutsuki emerged from the statue and asked them to wait, while Kanami took Hinata’s hand to calm her.
• Kanami questioned Hamura about draining Hinata’s chakra, and Hamura said the statue had absorbed it passively.
• Kanami demanded compensation from Hamura, and Hinata stood dumbfounded at his boldness.

Hamura Otsutsuki offered Hinata a Wedge that could eventually awaken the Tenseigan as compensation for the chakra his statue had drained from her. Hinata accepted and fused with the energy, but Hamura could not say when the Tenseigan might appear.

• Kanami demanded compensation from Hamura Otsutsuki for the chakra his statue had drained from Hinata, and Hamura offered to awaken a Wedge in her that could lead to the Tenseigan.
• Kanami agreed to Hamura's offer, and Hinata accepted the Wedge as a gift from her ancestor.
• Hamura refined the statue's pale violet light into an energy sphere and told Hinata not to resist as it entered her body.
• Hinata fused with the energy, and Hamura explained that her Senjutsu had stimulated bloodline power she already possessed.
• Kanami asked when Hinata's Tenseigan would awaken, and Hamura said it could happen immediately or after more than a decade.

Hinata gained the bloodline power needed to awaken the Tenseigan as Hamura Otsutsuki’s lingering consciousness began to vanish. Before disappearing, Hamura revealed that Hagoromo and Kaguya were not fully dead, leaving Kanami and Hinata aware of dangers that could threaten the Ninja World.

• Hinata thanked Hamura Otsutsuki after he strengthened her bloodline and gave her the key to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Kanami asked Hamura about a passage to the moon so he could stop Otsutsuki Toneri, but Hamura said he had flown there and knew of no passage.
• Hamura explained that his true body had gone into the stars to search for the Otsutsuki Clan and that he had lost contact with it.
• Hamura told Hinata that Hagoromo Otsutsuki was not completely dead and could still observe the world.
• Hamura revealed that Kaguya Otsutsuki, also known as the Rabbit Goddess, remained sealed on the moon and warned that someone might need to guide the Ninja World if she escaped.

Kanami and Hinata returned from Hamura Otsutsuki’s fading consciousness, and Kanami prepared to seek the Great Toad Sage’s divination about reaching the moon. Jiraiya helped Kanami sign Mount Myoboku’s summoning contract, and Kanami summoned Gamatatsu to arrange a trip there.

• Hamura Otsutsuki vanished after urging Hinata not to worry and suggesting the crisis might awaken her Tenseigan.
• Kanami told Hinata he would visit Jiraiya and seek the Great Toad Sage’s help finding the lunar passage, while Hinata resolved to try awakening the Tenseigan.
• Kanami returned to Jiraiya’s hospital room, where Jiraiya gave him Mount Myoboku’s summoning scroll to sign.
• Kanami signed the contract and summoned Gamatatsu, who was astonished by Kanami’s chakra and remarked that Naruto had little chakra by comparison.
• Jiraiya told Gamatatsu to use the Reverse Summoning Jutsu to take Kanami to Mount Myoboku, and Gamatatsu asked why Kanami was going there.

Kanami went to Mount Myoboku to ask the Great Toad Sage to locate a passage to the moon. Gamamaru found it, then tried to divine Kanami’s fate and suddenly spat out blood.

• Jiraiya sent Kanami with Gamatatsu to Mount Myoboku and warned him to mind his manners.
• Kanami saw Naruto meditating on a platform but left him undisturbed.
• Kanami asked Gamamaru to divine the location of a passage to the moon, and Gamamaru agreed.
• Gamamaru located the passage and asked how Kanami knew it existed; Kanami said Otsutsuki Toneri had told him.
• Gamamaru attempted to divine Kanami’s fate and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Kanami learned that the Moon Passage was somewhere in the Ninja World’s coldest region, but the Great Toad Sage suffered a backlash after trying to read Kanami’s fate. Kanami then discovered he had no way to leave Mount Myoboku promptly, so the Toad Sage arranged for him to learn Mount Myoboku’s sage techniques while they searched for another way back.

• The Great Toad Sage spat blood after trying to divine Kanami’s fate, then told Fukasaku and Shima not to blame Kanami.
• The Great Toad Sage apologized to Kanami and revealed that the Moon Passage lay somewhere in the coldest region of the Ninja World.
• Kanami tried to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave Mount Myoboku, but realized he could not reach a mark from that distance.
• Kanami learned that Jiraiya could not summon him because he had lost an arm, while Naruto was also training at Mount Myoboku.
• The Great Toad Sage asked Fukasaku and Shima to teach Kanami Mount Myoboku’s sage techniques and promised to find another way to send him home.

Jiraiya woke after a dream from the Toad Sage and went to look for Tsunade's research on a replacement arm. On Mount Myoboku, Kanami arrived to learn its Sage Art, thanked Naruto for saving Jiraiya, and fled when Shima and Fukasaku offered him raw grubs.

• Jiraiya woke from a dream in which the Toad Sage urged him to find a way to use Summoning Jutsu, then headed to the abandoned Root base to seek Tsunade's Hashirama Cell research.
• The Toad Sage reflected that Kanami was the child of destiny after failing to glimpse Kanami's fate.
• Naruto found Kanami speaking with Shima and Fukasaku, and Kanami explained that he had come to learn Mount Myoboku Sage Art.
• Naruto thanked Kanami for saving Jiraiya and declared that Kanami would be his big brother, while insisting he would still surpass him.
• Naruto practiced balancing Natural Energy with a shadow clone as Shima and Fukasaku praised his progress and ate raw grubs.
• Fukasaku offered Kanami a plate of big green grubs, and Kanami hurried away instead of eating them.

Jiraiya told Tsunade that the Great Toad Sage had sent Kanami to Mount Myoboku and urged her to finish Hashirama-cell research quickly so he could return to Kanami. Tsunade recruited researchers to accelerate the work, and Katasuke Tono volunteered.

• Shima worried that Kanami and Jiraiya would not eat her cooking, while Fukasaku comforted her.
• Jiraiya visited Tsunade at the Root base and asked whether the Hashirama-cell arm was ready.
• Jiraiya explained that the Great Toad Sage had appeared in his dream and told him to use Reverse Summoning to bring Kanami back from Mount Myoboku.
• Jiraiya asked Tsunade to skip compatibility testing and attach the arm as soon as it was developed, and Tsunade agreed to recruit more researchers.
• Tsunade announced an urgent village-wide search for research talent, and Katasuke Tono volunteered.

Tsunade brought the newly recruited assistants to Root’s base and began researching how to reconstruct an arm from Hashirama Cells, impressed by Katasuke Tono’s knowledge and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Kanami continued learning Mount Myoboku’s Senjutsu and considered whether body activation could someday help him use the Eight Gates safely.

• Tsunade recruited Katasuke Tono after he identified research equipment and offered useful suggestions about Hashirama Cells.
• Tsunade led the assistants into Root’s base, where Katasuke focused intently on the Hashirama Cells.
• Katasuke asked to study the cells, and Tsunade allowed him to assist while promising the possibility of long-term research work.
• Tsunade began studying how to reconstruct tiny cells into an arm, and Katasuke eagerly joined her.
• At Mount Myoboku, Kanami learned Senjutsu techniques from Fukasaku and Shima and considered combining body activation with the Eight Gates.

Akatsuki’s remaining members met after several teams disappeared, while Pain and Konan reported capturing the Six-Tails. The next day, Tsunade showed Jiraiya a prosthetic arm made from Hashirama Cells and prepared to test a transplant.

• At Akatsuki’s meeting, Pain, Konan, Tobi, Itachi Uchiha, and Black and White Zetsu waited in vain for Deidara and Sasori and for Kakuzu and Hidan.
• Black and White Zetsu reported that Red-Hair had left Konoha using the Flying Thunder God Technique and returned two days later, but he did not know where Red-Hair had gone.
• Konan and Pain reported capturing Saiken, the Six-Tails, while Itachi Uchiha and Tobi reported capturing Kokuō, the Five-Tails, and Pain ended the meeting.
• After the meeting, Pain told Konan he had pretended to be clueless so Madara Uchiha would continue helping him capture the Tailed Beasts.
• The next day, Tsunade took Jiraiya to the Root base, where Katasuke Tono showed them a prosthetic arm made from recombined Hashirama Cells.
• Tsunade broke the culture tank and took the arm, saying she believed the transplant operation had a fifty percent chance of success.

Tsunade transplanted a Hashirama Cells arm onto Jiraiya, adjusting and stitching it into place while he endured intense pain. After the arm fused successfully, Jiraiya prepared to test whether he could move it.

• Tsunade called Jiraiya over and explained that she had prepared a pale arm from Hashirama Cells without blood type matching or skin grafting.
• Tsunade fitted the arm to Jiraiya's shoulder, adjusted it, and used a chakra bubble to draw impurities from his body while Jiraiya writhed in pain.
• Tsunade gave Jiraiya an anesthetic injection, and Katasuke Tono held him steady as Tsunade rapidly stitched the arm into place.
• Tsunade finished the transplant in less than ten minutes and told Jiraiya to try moving his new left arm.
• Jiraiya recovered from foaming at the mouth and said he would test the arm.

Jiraiya successfully used his transplanted Hashirama-cell arm to summon Fukasaku, who brought Kanami back from Mount Myoboku. Kanami returned home to Hinata with news that the Great Toad Sage had located the Moon Passage, then asked her where the coldest place was.

• Jiraiya tested his restored left arm, formed hand seals, and summoned Fukasaku without entering Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya asked Fukasaku to reverse-summon Kanami, and Kanami vanished from Mount Myoboku.
• The Great Toad Sage reflected that Kanami might be the Child of Destiny whose presence had changed Jiraiya's fate.
• Kanami returned to the former Root base, spoke briefly with Jiraiya and Tsunade, then used Flying Thunder God to go home.
• Hinata welcomed Kanami and learned that he had studied some toad senjutsu and that the Great Toad Sage had divined the Moon Passage's location.
• Kanami told Hinata the Moon Passage was in the coldest place and asked her where that was.