Recaps

Mito Uzumaki summoned Shobue and Yui Hyuga to Konoha, where Yui realized she had returned and immediately flew off to find Nai Hyuga. Shobue was left behind with Mito after Yui disappeared.

• Mito Uzumaki used Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and her own chakra to power a huge summoning formation.
• Shobue appeared with Yui Hyuga, covered Yui’s mouth, and told her to call her Shobue from then on.
• Shobue introduced herself as a guest elder of Shikkotsu Forest and Yui as Katsuyu’s summoning contractor to Mito Uzumaki.
• Yui learned she was in Konoha and flew away to find Nai Hyuga.
• Shobue cursed at Yui’s reckless departure as Mito Uzumaki choked on the dust and sensed Yui vanish from range.

After escaping the courtyard, Yui used a new mental-power concealment technique to evade Konoha's curfew patrol and changed her appearance. While heading toward the Hyuga compound to search for Nai, she encountered an ANBU burying someone and accidentally revealed her presence.

• Mito Uzumaki left to fetch the Third Hokage to welcome Shobue, while Katsuyu reassured Shobue that Mito no longer suspected her identity.
• Yui landed on Konoha's main street and hid from the Uchiha Konoha Guard Force enforcing curfew, with a stray cat drawing their attention away.
• Yui used the Shape Concealment Technique from Shobue's scroll to transform her appearance and conceal her presence without using chakra.
• Yui set off toward the Hyuga Clan Compound to look for Nai and spotted an ANBU erecting a gravestone in the woods.
• Yui accidentally dislodged a pebble, and the ANBU called out, "Who's there..."

Yui encountered Hatake Sakumo while sneaking toward the Hyuga Clan Compound, then searched for Nai Hyuga and found her room abandoned. The chapter left Yui watching Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi, hoping they could tell her where Nai was.

• Hatake Sakumo confronted Yui, who identified him and explained that a friend had given her Wave Breaker.
• Hatake Sakumo let Yui go, then called after her to ask whether she knew where Yui Hyuga was.
• Yui evaded him and sneaked into the Hyuga Clan Compound before dawn.
• Yui searched Nai Hyuga’s dusty, ruined room and the Training Ground but found no sign of her.
• Yui hid in the Training Ground when Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi passed by, and considered asking them about Nai.

Shobue met Hiruzen Sarutobi in Konoha and invented a story about Tsunade reaching Shikkotsu Forest to explain her arrival. Meanwhile, Yui’s dizziness and fatigue worsened as she followed the young Hyuga brothers and seized an opening to approach them.

• Mito Uzumaki brought Hiruzen to meet Shobue, a guest retainer from Shikkotsu Forest.
• Shobue told Hiruzen that Tsunade had accidentally summoned herself to Shikkotsu Forest while drunk, and Hiruzen believed her explanation.
• Hiruzen offered to arrange a place for Shobue to stay and led her toward the Hokage’s Office.
• Yui endured dizziness, weakness, and fatigue as she followed Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga.
• Hiashi led Hizashi into an alley to avoid being late and revealed that he had noticed someone following them.
• Hiashi suddenly tugged at Hizashi’s hand as they walked through the alley.

Yui questioned Hiashi and Hizashi about Nai Hyuga, learning that Ikuko Hyuga had taken Nai away a year earlier. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi arranged a house for Shobue and reprimanded Danzo for barging into his office.

• Yui stopped Hiashi and Hizashi and offered them candy in exchange for information about Nai Hyuga.
• Hiashi and Hizashi said they had not seen Nai in a year and recalled that Ikuko Hyuga had taken her away during a Gentle Fist lesson.
• A Hyuga Ninja attacked Yui, who escaped with the Body Flicker Technique and decided to search Hyuga Feng's room for clues.
• Shobue chose a quiet house in Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi sent an ANBU to show her there.
• Danzo burst into the Hokage's Office, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered him to mind his decorum.
• Danzo apologized to Hiruzen Sarutobi and explained that he had come to discuss beginning the operation.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Danzo for reading classified intelligence, then agreed to let him move against Hyuga Feng that night while keeping the Hokage’s ANBU uninvolved. Elsewhere, Shobue sensed that Yui might be using a dangerous technique and hurried to find her.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi angrily challenged Danzo’s authority after learning he had read classified intelligence, but relented because he felt he owed Danzo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo reviewed the intelligence about Hyuga Feng’s Byakugan and agreed to act before it reached its final stage of evolution.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ruled that the Hokage’s ANBU would not participate, and Danzo began preparing to act that night.
• Shobue noticed the ANBU watcher outside her room, then sensed Yui’s location and worried that she had used a dangerous ninjutsu.
• Shobue left the room and hurried out to find Yui.

Yui broke into a room in search of information about Nai Hyuga and hid in a secret passage when Hyuga Feng and Ikuko Hyuga arrived. She overheard that a woman was still alive inside the Byakugan Water Mirror sphere and moved deeper into the passage, fearing she had discovered the truth about someone she knew.

• Yui searched the room for information about Nai Hyuga, found Hyuga Gentle Fist manuals, and took them.
• When Hyuga Feng and Ikuko Hyuga entered, Yui slipped through a hidden door into a secret passage.
• Yui overheard Ikuko tell Hyuga Feng that the new Laboratory was nearly ready, but the Byakugan crystal sphere could not be moved while its living occupant remained inside.
• Hyuga Feng ordered Ikuko to deal with the woman and warned her not to damage the Byakugan he planned to fuse.
• Yui recognized clues about the woman in the sphere and forced herself to continue into the darkness of the passage.

Yui found Nai Hyuga trapped inside a crystal sphere filled with Byakugan eyes and confronted Ikuko Hyuga as she tried to kill her. Yui began her first battle with Wave Breaker, but Ikuko blocked her opening attacks with Rotation.

• Yui entered the Laboratory and hid as Ikuko Hyuga approached Nai Hyuga’s crystal sphere.
• Ikuko activated the Control Panel and raised Nai Hyuga toward the sphere’s opening to kill her.
• Yui intercepted Ikuko’s senbon with a kunai and emerged to demand that she explain what she had done to Nai.
• Ikuko sealed Nai back inside the sphere, and Yui drew Wave Breaker and activated her Byakugan.
• Yui attacked with Wind Release: Gale Palm and a Body Flicker slash, but Ikuko used Rotation to block both attacks.

Yui Hyuga destroyed the crystal sphere in the Laboratory and freed Nai Hyuga before fighting Ikuko Hyuga. After outmaneuvering Ikuko and killing her, Yui identified herself as Yui Hyuga.

• Yui sent a powerful Water Release technique into the crystal sphere, breaking it open and freeing Nai Hyuga.
• Yui stopped Ikuko from reaching Nai and challenged her over old and new debts.
• Yui and Ikuko clashed with their weapons, and Ikuko attacked with Eight Trigrams: Air Palm.
• Ikuko struck a Shadow Clone with Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms, but Yui’s own Shadow Clone had fooled her.
• Yui stabbed Ikuko through the chest, and, as Ikuko asked who she was, Yui said, "I am Yui Hyuga."

Yui defeated Ikuko Hyuga, who accepted her death and gave Yui an extraordinary Byakugan for Nai Hyuga. Yui sent Nai to Shikkotsu Forest for treatment and began gathering the Byakugan from the laboratory before planning her escape.

• Ikuko Hyuga said fate had destined her death, but Yui argued that fate was the result of people’s choices and pulled the kunai from Ikuko’s body.
• After reconsidering her beliefs, Ikuko removed one of her Byakugan and gave it to Yui as compensation for Nai Hyuga, then died.
• Yui summoned Katsuyu to treat Nai, but Katsuyu could only keep her alive and took her to Shikkotsu Forest so Shobue could seek a cure.
• Yui received her Shadow Clone’s memories and learned that Hyuga Feng outside had not noticed the fight because the laboratory was soundproof.
• Yui summoned several Shadow Clones to collect the Byakugan scattered across the laboratory.

Yui escaped with the Byakugan but was trapped in Hyuga Feng’s Laboratory after he discovered Ikuko Hyuga’s death and began searching for her. Shobue entered the Hyuga Clan Compound to reach Yui, while Hyuga Feng found Yui’s hiding place and attacked.

• Hyuga Feng discovered that Gentle Fist scrolls were missing, entered the Laboratory, and found the shattered crystal sphere, stolen Byakugan, and dead Ikuko Hyuga.
• Yui hid from Hyuga Feng, who blocked the Laboratory’s exit and summoned three Shadow Clones to search for her.
• Shobue entered the Hyuga Clan Compound and used Toothpaste Acid to dig toward the underground Laboratory where she sensed Yui.
• Yui suffered a sudden burst of head pain, stumbled, and revealed her position to Hyuga Feng.
• Hyuga Feng located Yui and unleashed Eight Trigrams, Mountain-Breaking Strike toward her hiding place.

Yui fought Hyuga Feng, who demanded she return the Byakugan and attacked her with his Shadow Clones and Gentle Fist. After realizing he was much stronger, she used a water sphere to force him to defend with Rotation and escaped toward the exit passage.

• Yui dodged Hyuga Feng's attack and summoned three Shadow Clones to fight his three clones.
• Yui attacked Hyuga Feng with her knife, and he noticed her Byakugan before dodging and counterattacking.
• Hyuga Feng struck Yui's shoulder and overpowered her in taijutsu, so she switched to ninjutsu.
• Yui's Gale Palm was effortlessly countered, and she defended against the returning force with a Water Formation Wall.
• Yui launched a small white sphere of water, prompting Hyuga Feng to use Rotation, then raced toward the exit passage.

Yui fought Hyuga Feng and his Shadow Clones while struggling to maintain her Shape Concealment Technique. After discovering that Feng possessed Nai Hyuga’s eyes, Yui attacked him in anger, but her disguise failed and he recognized her.

• Hyuga Feng blocked Yui’s escape with Byakugan Storm, collapsing the tunnel exit, while his Shadow Clones defeated most of hers.
• Yui fought Feng’s two remaining Shadow Clones with dwindling chakra and mental energy, eventually destroying the last one with her short sword.
• Yui recognized Nai Hyuga’s eyes on Feng and charged him, declaring that he did not deserve to have them.
• Feng kicked Yui away, and her worsening condition caused her Shape Concealment Technique to flicker and disappear.
• Hyuga Feng recognized Yui and named her, and she answered, “So what if I am...”

Yui Hyuga realized Hyuga Feng was experimenting with the Tenseigan, but he attacked her after she exposed his research. Shobue broke into the laboratory, healed Yui, and confronted Hyuga Feng while he was out of chakra.

• Hyuga Feng recognized Yui Hyuga and attacked her with shuriken, but she dodged and suspected he was researching the Tenseigan.
• Yui guessed that Hyuga Feng's experiment involved the Tenseigan, and he prepared an attack that drained his remaining chakra.
• Shobue's corrosive liquid ate through the laboratory ceiling, and she dropped inside to find Yui exhausted and badly injured.
• Shobue gave Yui Mental Power and treated her chest injury, then promised to avenge her and approached Hyuga Feng.
• Hyuga Feng realized Shobue had no apparent chakra as she rushed toward him and used Toothpaste Acid.

Hyuga Feng’s attacks could not move Shobue, so he unleashed his Byakugan Beam, forcing her to protect Yui and endure the laser. Shobue’s clone got Yui to safety, while the original vanished into green particles after the beam overwhelmed her nature-energy shield.

• Shobue spat corrosive acid at Hyuga Feng, who dodged but had to close his left eye to free up chakra.
• Hyuga Feng tried to throw and strike Shobue, but her immense weight and body resisted his Gentle Fist and Eight Trigrams techniques.
• Shobue mocked Hyuga Feng’s weakness, and he responded by opening his eye and firing his Byakugan Beam.
• Shobue sensed the beam’s unusual power and used Slug Division to send a clone to move Yui out of its path.
• The beam shattered Shobue’s nature-energy shield and engulfed her, but she disappeared in green particles after confirming Yui was safe.

Hyuga Feng lost control of his Ninjutsu, and its beam began tearing through the Laboratory while Yui and Shobue searched for a way out. After Yui gathered enough chakra, she took Shobue into her arms so she could fly them toward the ceiling exit.

• Hyuga Feng discovered his Ninjutsu was draining his chakra uncontrollably and begged Yui and Shobue to save him.
• Yui and Shobue realized Hyuga Feng’s Ninjutsu had gone out of control, but he fired its beam at them in desperation.
• Shobue carried Yui through the chamber to evade the beam and collapsing rocks, but she could not fly through the exit herself.
• Yui asked Shobue to buy her time to mold chakra, and Shobue continued dodging the beam and falling rubble while Yui prepared.
• Yui gathered enough chakra, then picked Shobue up and prepared to fly them toward the exit.

Yui escaped the collapsing Laboratory with Shobue, but Hyuga Feng redirected his final attack and wounded her before dying as the chamber collapsed. As the Hyuga clan mobilized to investigate the destruction, the chapter ended in a gloomy room where someone addressed Lord Danzo.

• Yui carried Shobue toward the exit while Hyuga Feng redirected his uncontrolled beam at them.
• Hyuga Feng's beam struck Yui's left shoulder, and he died as the Laboratory collapsed around him.
• Shobue used Medical Ninjutsu to heal Yui's shoulder wound in a nearby grove.
• Hyuga ninja organized a response to the collapse across a third of the Hyuga Clan Compound, and Hyuga Taku went to investigate.
• In a gloomy room elsewhere, someone addressed Lord Danzo.

Yui recovered Hyuga Feng’s Byakugan from his corpse and fled the ruins with Shobue, while Hyuga Taku identified them and issued a wanted order. Yui learned that Nai’s vital signs had stabilized but her injuries and mental state remained serious, leaving her still in danger.

• Yui retrieved the Byakugan from Hyuga Feng’s corpse and escaped the ruins with Shobue.
• Hyuga Taku recognized Yui and suspected her companion was Nai, then ordered the clan to hunt them for assassinating the clan head and stealing his Byakugan.
• Konoha ANBU arrived at the ruins, claiming the Hokage had sent them to help with disaster relief, and Hyuga Taku accepted their assistance.
• Yui told Shobue she would not fear being hunted and agreed that Shikkotsu Forest could be her home.
• Shobue told Yui that Nai’s vital signs had stabilized but her injuries and mind had not fully recovered, and promised to help her.

Yui returned to Shikkotsu Forest to check on Nai Hyuga while Danzo investigated the ruined Hyuga compound and the missing Byakugan. Hiruzen Sarutobi declared Yui and Nai A-Rank Rogue Ninjas and ordered ANBU to recover the eyes, leaving the hunt for them underway.

• Yui asked Shobue to send her back to Shikkotsu Forest, then hurried to check on Nai Hyuga.
• Danzo searched the Hyuga Clan Compound ruins, learned the Byakugan were missing, and went to investigate with a Root member.
• The white-haired ANBU found Yui's message explaining she had returned to Shikkotsu Forest, then received a summons from Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hyuga Taku told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Yui had taken the Hyuga Clan Head's Byakugan and showed him a photograph of the corpse.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi designated Yui and Nai Hyuga as A-Rank Rogue Ninjas and ordered ANBU to bring back the Byakugan for the Hyuga Clan.
• Someone knocked on the door of the Hokage's Office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Danzo had not taken the Byakugan and assigned the ANBU to pursue Yui Hyuga, raising her missing-nin rank. The chapter ended when an ANBU reported that the mission to watch their guest from Shikkotsu Forest had failed.

• Hyuga Taku thanked Hiruzen Sarutobi for the ANBU's help, prompting Hiruzen to realize Danzo's Root had impersonated the ANBU.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded that Danzo hand over some Byakugan, and the two argued before Danzo explained what had happened at the Hyuga Clan.
• Danzo argued that Yui Hyuga had taken the Byakugan and urged Hiruzen to capture her before she left the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi raised Yui Hyuga's missing-nin rank and assigned her pursuit to the ANBU, excluding Danzo's subordinates.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent a Message Hawk and wrote a scroll, then learned from Baiji that the mission involving their guest from Shikkotsu Forest had failed.

Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Baiji to hunt two suspected S-rank rogue ninja, Yui Hyuga and Nai Hyuga. At Shikkotsu Forest, Yui learned that Nai's mind had been severely damaged and decided to study Sage Mode in hopes of waking her.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Baiji a mission to hunt two S-rank rogue ninja from Konoha and allowed him to bring comrades.
• Baiji read the scroll and discovered that Yui Hyuga and Nai Hyuga were the suspects, then recalled meeting a woman connected to Yui.
• Yui asked Shobue why Nai Hyuga remained unconscious, and Shobue explained that Nai's brain had suffered severe damage.
• Shobue said that mastering Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode might help heal Nai, and Yui immediately chose to learn it.
• Shobue led Yui away to begin Sage Mode training after Yui settled Nai back on the bed.

Tsunade learned that Yui Hyuga was accused of assassinating Hyuga Feng and defecting, but kept her suspicions about Yui’s connection to Shikkotsu Forest from Hiruzen Sarutobi. Meanwhile, Yui began preliminary Sage Mode training, which required her to hold her breath underwater for three days.

• Konoha residents read wanted notices naming two S-rank rogue ninja, and Hyuga Taku approved of the Third raising their wanted rank.
• Tsunade struggled to teach medical interns and then spoke privately with Hiruzen Sarutobi, who asked about her drunken trip to Shikkotsu Forest.
• Tsunade recalled Katsuyu’s request concerning Yui Hyuga and chose not to share what she knew with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen told Tsunade that Yui Hyuga and Nai Hyuga had assassinated Hyuga Feng, stolen two pairs of Byakugan, and defected from Konoha.
• Tsunade resolved to confirm the accusation with Katsuyu, while Yui learned that underwater breath-holding was the first step toward Sage Mode training.

Three years into learning Shikkotsu Forest’s Sage Mode, Yui could retain natural energy for only four seconds and worried she was unsuited to the training. Shobue encouraged her to keep going, and Yui asked how to strengthen her mental power to absorb natural energy faster.

• Yui tried to hold senjutsu chakra underwater but could retain it for only four seconds before it faded.
• Yui asked Shobue whether she was unsuited to learning Sage Mode, and Shobue told her not to give up on saving Nai Hyuga.
• Yui asked Shobue for a way to speed up her training, but Shobue said the Shikkotsu Forest had no special aid for absorbing natural energy.
• Yui reasoned that stronger mental power would help her seize more natural energy from the lake and asked Shobue how to increase it.
• Shobue explained that although special genjutsu could strengthen mental power, Yui was already training her mental power as she wrested natural energy from the lake.

Yui decided to leave Shikkotsu Forest the next day to seek ways to improve her mental power and make progress toward Sage Mode. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi remained unable to find Yui and Nai and began to suspect Hyuga Taku and Danzo before assigning Baiji a new mission.

• Yui decided that training at the bottom of the lake was too slow and resolved to go out and search for genjutsu that could improve her mental power.
• Shobue explained that Shikkotsu Forest occupied a connected separate space and said her clone could summon Yui from its exit.
• Yui planned to leave Shikkotsu Forest the following day after making little progress with Sage Mode.
• Baiji reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi that the ANBU had found no trace of Yui or Nai in three years.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected Hyuga Taku and Danzo might have conspired over the Byakugan, then told Baiji he had another important mission for him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted Baiji to ANBU squad leader and assigned him to secure Konoha’s border with Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Yui left Shikkotsu Forest with Xiao You, but purple poisonous smoke appeared as they neared the cave exit.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi made Baiji an ANBU squad leader and gave him credentials.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reassigned the rogue-ninja hunt and ordered Baiji to kill Sunagakure infiltrators at Konoha’s border.
• Yui decided to leave Shikkotsu Forest without Shobue, and Xiao You persuaded her to come along.
• Yui entered the cave passage with Xiao You and used her Byakugan to check that it was safe.
• As Yui and Xiao You approached the exit, purple poisonous smoke drifted into the cave.