Chapter Summaries

Mo You, an Ōtsutsuki child, claimed to be Hizashi’s son and was accepted into the Hyuga Clan after Hizashi admitted to a past affair. The chapter left Yu in his new home, expecting the clan to brand him with the Caged Bird Seal but trusting the Book of the Gods to protect him—or planning to flee.

• Hiruzen brought Yū Hyuga before Hiashi and Hizashi to investigate his Byakugan and claim of being Hizashi’s son.
• Hizashi recalled his past affair with a woman from the Land of Fire and accepted Yū as his child after seeing their resemblance.
• The narration revealed that Mo You had transmigrated into an Ōtsutsuki child and invented the story to gain a legitimate identity and protection in Konoha.
• Hiashi and an elder discussed making the child protect the second main household and considered using the Caged Bird Seal to ensure his obedience.
• Hizashi took Yu home, where Mo You remembered the Book of the Gods and resolved to rely on it against the seal or escape if the Hyuga Clan tried to brand him.

Yu settled into life as Hizashi’s son in the Hyuga compound, bonding with his new older brother Neji and meeting the clan. After learning about the Branch Family’s Caged Bird Seal, Yu chose to stay, leaving Hizashi to lead him home.

• Neji welcomed Yu as his little brother, and Yu promised they would play together that night.
• Hizashi took Yu around the Hyuga compound, introduced him to clan members, and explained Hiashi’s restrictions on where he could go.
• Hizashi told Yu about the Byakugan and the Main and Branch Family system, then revealed his Caged Bird Seal and offered to take Yu away.
• Yu joked that he wanted to go home because he was hungry, reassuring Hizashi that he intended to stay.
• Hizashi wrapped his bandage around the seal again and led Yu home, unaware that Yu’s arrival would change the clan’s future.

Yu discovered that his Ōtsutsuki body converted ordinary food into candy with the Ogetsuhime technique, while Hiashi ended the surveillance and summoned him alone. The chapter left Hizashi outside the closed room, fearing Yu was about to receive the Caged Bird Seal.

• Yu learned that Ōtsutsuki bodies sent ordinary food into another dimension and used Ogetsuhime to turn it into candy that restored stamina and Chakra.
• Yu made candy in the bathroom, gave Hizashi a mustard-flavored piece, and shared more with Neji while the Main Family secretly watched him.
• Hiashi ended the surveillance after receiving reports on Yu and told an elder he would settle the matter soon.
• Hizashi returned from the Main Family residence and brought Yu to meet Hiashi, while Yu suspected the clan was about to act.
• Hiashi ordered Yu to enter his room alone and told Hizashi to stay outside; after the door closed, Hizashi struck the steps and lamented that he had not taken Yu away.

Yu refused Hiashi’s offer to escape the Caged Bird Seal by severing ties with Hizashi, and Hiashi revealed the offer had been a test. Hiashi spared Yu the seal by drawing a false mark on his forehead and asked him to protect Hanabi, while the upcoming Chunin Exams raised the threat of Hizashi’s future death.

• Hiashi offered to have Amano adopt Yu into the Main Family, but Yu refused to abandon Hizashi and accepted the Caged Bird Seal instead.
• Hiashi revealed that he had tested Yu and chose to spare him the seal, drawing a false mark on his forehead so the clan’s tradition appeared intact.
• Hiashi asked Yu to care for and protect Hanabi, and Yu agreed after giving him candy.
• Hiashi and Hizashi reconciled, and Hiashi urged Hizashi to raise Yu well.
• Hiashi noted that the Konoha Chunin Exams were approaching and warned that the Hyuga needed to focus on security; Yu resolved to prevent Hizashi’s foretold death.

Yu used a dream technique to warn Hiashi about the Kumogakure abduction plot, preventing Hizashi’s death and changing Neji’s childhood. After settling into the Hyuga Clan and getting into mischief with Neji, Yu was told by Hizashi to begin training.

• Yu learned Ikuime Iribiko Isachi no Mikoto and sent Hiashi repeated dreams of the coming abduction and Hizashi’s sacrifice.
• Hiashi stayed alert, and when a masked Kumogakure ninja abducted Hinata, he subdued the intruder alive and uncovered poison hidden in his teeth.
• Hiashi accepted Hiruzen’s cautious approach, and Kumogakure later evaded responsibility for the attempted abduction.
• Yu realized Hizashi had survived and Neji had been spared the loss of his father, while Hiashi grew more affectionate toward Hizashi, Neji, and Yu.
• Yu and Neji played mischief around the Hyuga Clan, and in early spring of Konoha Year 52, Hizashi ordered Yu to begin training like Neji.

Yu began Gentle Fist training and quickly mastered its fundamentals, surprising Hizashi and Hiashi with his Byakugan and chakra. He later danced and performed bizarre aerial tricks for the Hyuga clan, leaving everyone who ate his candy dreaming of the same song.

• Hizashi taught Yu about Gentle Fist and the Byakugan, and Yu activated his Byakugan almost immediately.
• Hizashi and Hiashi saw that Yu had an extraordinary amount of chakra, though Yu suppressed most of it.
• Hizashi demonstrated Gentle Fist footwork, and Yu learned it while dancing to a song in his head; Neji joined him afterward.
• Yu mastered the fundamentals of Gentle Fist in one day, prompting Hiashi to praise Hizashi and call Yu and Neji the Hyuga's future.
• Yu danced for clan members, performed increasingly strange hopping and flying tricks, and scattered candy that gave everyone who ate it dreams of dancing to the same song.

In Year 55, Yu left the Hyuga compound for the first time to attend the Ninja Academy after Danzo’s attempt to recruit him into Root prompted Hizashi and Hiashi to reveal his existence. There, Yu befriended the lonely Naruto Uzumaki, while Hanabi remained in his care and would soon begin training.

• Yu entertained Hanabi with his psychic technique, making paper airplanes and a candy-wrapper balloon fly around Hiashi’s house.
• Hiashi told Yu that he would start attending the Ninja Academy the next day, and explained that Hizashi had refused Danzo’s attempt to recruit Yu into Root.
• Hizashi had asked Hiashi to make Yu’s existence known in Konoha so Danzo could no longer use his origins as leverage.
• Yu agreed to attend the Academy and asked about Hanabi; Hiashi said she was ready to train and insisted Yu soothe her.
• Hizashi accompanied Yu out of the Hyuga compound to the Ninja Academy and explained why villagers shunned Naruto Uzumaki.
• Yu approached Naruto on a swing, offered him candy, and asked him to be friends.

Yū Hyuga befriended the lonely Naruto and defended him from their classmates’ mockery with a fierce introduction. Naruto was moved to tears, while Hinata thanked Yū and Sasuke took an interest in him.

• Naruto asked Yū why he wanted to be friends with him, and Yū explained that he was lonely too and invited Naruto to play with him and Neji.
• When classmates mocked Naruto and demanded that Yū introduce himself, Yū insisted on speaking for himself.
• Yū declared Naruto his friend, threatened the students who bad-mouthed him, and challenged anyone who had a problem to spar.
• Naruto cried at Yū’s defense, and Hinata thanked Yū for standing up for Naruto.
• Sasuke watched Yū with interest, and Iruka began the lesson.

Yu listened to Iruka's theory lesson, then faced three boys who confronted him over his earlier insults. When one attacked, Yu caught his punch and declared he would defend the Hyuga Clan's honor.

• Yu compared the Ninja Academy's physics lessons with real-world science and wondered whether inventions from his old world could be brought to the Naruto world.
• Naruto called Yu amazing, and Yu asked what he thought of Hinata; Naruto admitted he rarely noticed her, while Hinata blushed at his glance.
• After Iruka left for the training ground, three boys confronted Yu over his insults, including remarks about the Hyuga Clan.
• Yu asked whether the boys meant to hit him, and Bird's Nest swung a powerful punch at his face.
• Yu caught Bird's Nest's punch effortlessly and announced that he would teach them a lesson for insulting the Hyuga Clan.

Yu fought back against the children who bullied Naruto, injuring two and terrifying a third before Iruka stopped him. As Yu and Naruto headed to class, Naruto thanked him and invited him to Ichiraku, while Yu planned to expose Mizuki.

• Yu used his Gentle Fist techniques to injure the bird's-nest-haired boy and knock the butt-chinned boy unconscious.
• Yu immobilized the obnoxious boy with Aura Pressure and pretended he would poke out his eyes until Iruka intervened.
• Yu pulled out a tuft of the obnoxious boy's hair, and Iruka took the injured boys to the infirmary.
• Naruto thanked Yu for standing up for him and invited him to eat ramen at Ichiraku.
• Yu agreed to Naruto's invitation and planned to lure Mizuki into revealing his true intentions.

At the Training Ground, Yu sabotaged Teacher Mizuki’s shuriken demonstrations while pretending to be impressed. Mizuki’s final throw veered past Sakura and cut off tufts of her pink hair.

• Naruto missed his shuriken target while Yu watched the other children admire Sasuke’s accuracy.
• Yu asked Teacher Mizuki to teach him shurikenjutsu and secretly used psychokinesis to make Mizuki miss the target twice.
• Yu teased Mizuki by calling his technique “Shuriken Jerk-jutsu,” prompting Mizuki to insist he could make a perfect throw.
• Mizuki threw a shuriken with all his strength, but Yu redirected it past Sakura’s scalp and cut off several tufts of her hair.

Mizuki’s shuriken nearly hit Sakura, prompting her to cut off her hair and flee in humiliation. Sasuke took an interest in Yu’s skills and accepted his challenge to a shuriken contest, which Yu proposed they hold after only three days of practice.

• Mizuki blamed his poor aim on an upset stomach and hurried away after the class demanded an explanation for nearly hitting Sakura.
• Sakura cut off her hair with a kunai, declared she was done being a woman, and ran away crying when Sasuke ignored her.
• In the bathroom, Mizuki blamed Naruto and the Nine-Tailed Fox for interfering with his shuriken and vowed revenge.
• Yu deliberately missed the target while practicing, and Sasuke offered him advice on throwing shuriken.
• Sasuke explained that he was interested in Yu’s Taijutsu and warned that the graduation exam tested multiple skills.
• Yu challenged Sasuke to a shuriken contest, and Sasuke accepted with a one-month deadline before Yu proposed they compete in three days.

Yu and Naruto shared their first ramen meal at Ichiraku, where Yu secretly used Michinoue no Mikoto to turn two Chunin against each other. After Teuchi gave the boys a shared VIP card, Mizuki confronted Yu and warned him to stay away from Naruto.

• Yu and Naruto ate ramen at Ichiraku while two Chunin insulted Naruto and argued over their bowls.
• Yu used Michinoue no Mikoto to make the drunken Chunin dump chili powder into a bowl and shove his companion's face into hot broth, prompting Teuchi to send them outside.
• Naruto realized his discount coupon was missing, and Yu paid by buying a shared Ichiraku VIP card from Teuchi.
• Teuchi told Ayame he had made an exception because Naruto had finally found a friend, and Yu and Naruto parted while promising to meet again.
• Mizuki stopped Yu near an alley and warned him that Naruto was the Nine-Tailed Fox's incarnation and that he should stay away.

Yu used candy and secret techniques to manipulate Mizuki and prepare dreams for him and Naruto, then returned home to his family. The chapter ended with Yu awakening a Mangekyō Sharingan in the space of the Book of the Gods.

• Yu pretended to believe Mizuki’s warning about Naruto, gave him candy, and learned through Amenosagume that Mizuki planned to use Naruto to obtain the Scroll of Seals.
• Yu returned home, spoke with Neji about inviting Naruto to play, and reunited with Hanabi while Hizashi sang in the bath.
• Yu prepared dreams for Naruto, showing him Hinata’s affection, and for Mizuki, imagining a humiliating ordeal involving the Raikage brothers.
• Yu entered the space of the Book of the Gods and revealed that his Byakugan had become a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Yu used his Mangekyo technique and the Heavenly Stone House to train for his shurikenjutsu match with Sasuke, while also continuing to develop other abilities. Meanwhile, Orochimaru discovered Yu’s ancient coffin and ordered the village that found it destroyed, setting a larger conflict in motion.

• Yu obtained the Pawēi God, a ring that used chakra to create weapons, and equipped both himself and his training clone with it.
• Yu sent a third Shin'yawake no Mikoto clone to practice Shurikenjutsu in the Heavenly Stone House, where time passed ten times faster.
• Yu checked on his other training clones: one had practiced striking a post for years, while another continued working toward the first level of Diamond Body.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi found Yu’s ancient coffin at an abandoned burial ground and decided to keep its existence secret from the Akatsuki and 'that man.'
• Orochimaru ordered the Sound Five to eliminate the villagers who had discovered the coffin, and they destroyed the village.

Yu attended the Ninja Academy, where classmates whispered about his Hyuga origins and Sakura blamed him for her shaved head. The Book of the Gods granted Yu the Earth Grudge Fear technique, and after class Iruka called him to the office.

• Naruto admitted he had dreamed about Hinata and enjoyed one of Yu's ramen-flavored candies.
• Classmates insulted Yu over his Hyuga Branch Family heritage, and Yu told Naruto he would defend his friends.
• Sakura arrived wearing a hat to hide her bald head and glared at Yu, whom she blamed for her misfortune.
• Iruka announced that Mizuki was absent and shuriken class would be replaced with free time.
• The Book of the Gods revealed that Yu could turn resentment into the Earth Grudge Fear technique, which grew stronger as he collected more resentment.
• After the bell rang, Iruka asked Yu to come with him to the office.

Yu collected resentment bubbles from Iruka and met Ebisu, who tried to recruit him as a student because he believed Yu had the potential to become Hokage. The chapter ended with Yu asking Ebisu what he thought of Naruto.

• Yu teased Iruka on the way to the office and collected a resentment bubble that formed when Iruka became annoyed.
• Iruka brought Yu to meet Ebisu, who questioned him about transferring into an older Ninja Academy class.
• Ebisu introduced himself as a Special Jōnin and said he wanted to train talented students to become great ninja.
• Yu resisted Ebisu’s efforts to recruit him, prompting Ebisu to explain why he believed Yu could become Hokage.
• Yu asked Ebisu what he thought of Naruto.

Yu defended Naruto against Ebisu’s prejudice and helped Naruto and Iruka confront the truth about Iruka’s past resentment. Yu then challenged Ebisu to demonstrate three basic ninjutsu, wagering that he could learn them after watching once, and Ebisu took him to the training ground.

• Ebisu advised Yu to avoid Naruto, and Yu confronted him about blaming Naruto for having the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed inside him.
• Naruto overheard Iruka admit he had once resented him and failed to defend him, and Iruka apologized and embraced him.
• Yu explained that Naruto’s pranks came from hardship and a need for attention, while Ebisu reconsidered his assumptions about Yu.
• Ebisu offered to train Yu to become a Hokage, but Yu said he only wanted to become a Genin and coast along.
• Yu challenged Ebisu to demonstrate the Transformation, Clone, and Substitution Techniques, promising to learn them after one viewing.
• Ebisu wagered that Yu would have to become his student if he failed, then took him to the training ground to demonstrate the techniques before the other students.

Yu demonstrated that he could copy the basic ninjutsu after seeing them once, then used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and left Ebisu and the gathered students stunned as the grounds filled with clones.

• Students gathered to watch Ebisu challenge Yu to learn three basic ninjutsu after one demonstration, with Neji and Yu’s classmates among the spectators.
• Ebisu demonstrated the Transformation, Substitution, and Clone Techniques, and Yu immediately copied them while transformed into a bald Sakura.
• Yu performed the Substitution Technique without leaving a log, prompting Ebisu to claim Yu must have already learned the techniques from the Hyuga Clan.
• Ebisu offered to demonstrate the Shadow Clone Technique as a final challenge, and Yu answered by using the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
• Yu’s clones filled the training grounds as Ebisu and the crowd watched in shock.

Naruto astonished the Ninja Academy by creating a huge number of Shadow Clones, while Yu collected resentment and drew Shikamaru’s suspicions about his own abilities. The Hokage and Konoha’s leaders discussed Naruto’s sudden power and the risks surrounding the Nine-Tails, as Danzo secretly kept his interest in Yu for the future.

• Naruto used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to spare Sakura embarrassment, shocking the crowd and Ebisu.
• Yu praised Naruto, returned Ebisu’s glasses, and gathered resentment bubbles, many of them from Sakura.
• Sasuke accepted Yu’s reminder about their shuriken match, while Shikamaru wondered whether Yu knew Naruto’s power or could match it himself.
• Rock Lee finished 1,000 sit-ups and vowed to surpass genius through hard work and taijutsu.
• Hiruzen and Konoha’s leaders debated whether the Nine-Tails’ chakra had surfaced and considered Naruto’s connection to Yu.
• Hiruzen warned Danzo not to antagonize the Hyuga, while Danzo privately planned to revisit his interest in Yu after dealing with the Uchiha.