Recaps

Mito invited Yui and Nai Hyuga to learn Sealing Jutsu while Tsunade slipped away to collect her casino winnings. In Konoha, Danzo warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Land of Whirlpools was under attack and raised the danger of other countries acquiring Uzumaki sealing techniques, leaving Hiruzen troubled about Mito.

• Mito invited Tsunade to join Yui and Nai Hyuga in learning Sealing Jutsu, but Tsunade hurried off to the casino instead.
• A Root operative reported to Danzo that events in the Land of Whirlpools had unfolded, and Danzo learned that Mito had chosen Kushina Uzumaki as the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Hatake Sakumo for his border service and ordered him to leave ANBU and become a Ninja Academy teacher.
• Danzo arrived at the Hokage's Office and told Hiruzen Sarutobi about the danger facing the Land of Whirlpools and Mito.
• Danzo warned that other countries might use Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu to strengthen their own tailed-beast seals, and Hiruzen worried about Mito.

Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to send Danzo’s Root to the Land of Whirlpools to retrieve the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and a candidate, but assigned Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo to lead them. In Uzushiogakure, Yui mastered most of the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu, and Mito proposed exchanging insights with Xiao You to improve them.

• Danzo persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to send Root to the Land of Whirlpools, and Hiruzen agreed while insisting Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo lead the team.
• Danzo accepted the arrangement and said Root would move that night.
• Yui figured out how Sealing Jutsu were formed after studying them for three days and mastered most of the techniques Mito taught her.
• Mito noticed Xiao You integrating the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu, but said she was curious rather than angry.
• Mito asked Yui to let Xiao You exchange insights with her after it finished integrating the techniques, hoping to develop stronger Sealing Jutsu.

Mito learned from the Nine-Tails that a terrifying consciousness was attached to Yui Hyuga and agreed to help seal it rather than kill her. The Nine-Tails feared the hidden power was stronger than anything he had encountered, and suspected Yui was reverting to her ancestry.

• The Nine-Tails told Mito that an evil consciousness on Yui Hyuga's neck had made him lose control when she met his eyes.
• The Nine-Tails asked Mito to kill Yui, offering her control of his power and promising to cooperate with the next jinchūriki.
• Mito refused to kill Yui without verifying the danger and turned to leave.
• The Nine-Tails offered his chakra to help Mito seal the consciousness, and Mito accepted the deal.
• After Mito left, the Nine-Tails admitted to himself that the aura terrified him and wondered whether Yui was reverting to her ancestry.

Yui asked Mito to help suppress the Cursed Seal with the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and Mito discovered that looking at the seal up close caused dizziness and erased her memory of its appearance. Their conversation ended when Kazumi reported that enemy ninja had broken in and the clan leader was fighting them.

• Mito revealed that she could use the Nine-Tails’ chakra and Sealing Jutsu to help suppress Yui’s Cursed Seal, but Yui said they should wait until Xiao You woke up.
• Yui let Mito examine the seal while warning her not to touch it.
• Mito became dizzy after looking closely at the seal and soon lost all memory of what it looked like.
• Kazumi arrived and told Mito that ninja had forced their way in and the clan leader was fighting them.
• Mito reacted with alarm when Kazumi confirmed that the ninja had made their move.

Mito investigated the attackers while Yui learned that Xiao You could strengthen sealing jutsu with its bloodline power and discovered the Evil Sealing Method. Yui and Nai Hyuga prepared to join the battle against powerful Water Release users in the Land of Whirlpools.

• Mito questioned Kazumi about the attackers’ appearance and went to meet the ninja with her.
• Xiao You finished learning sealing jutsu and explained that they improved its overall strength and could be enhanced by its bloodline.
• Xiao You identified the Evil Sealing Method as suitable for containing the Evil God’s cursed seal, but Yui chose to wait for Mito Uzumaki to help strengthen it.
• Yui heard fighting outside and went with Xiao You to investigate the attack.
• Nai Hyuga told Yui that the invaders were powerful Water Release users who had shrouded the area in mist.
• Yui agreed with Nai Hyuga that they should help the Land of Whirlpools fight back.

Nai Hyuga fought the enemy ninjas while trying to keep Yui from strenuous combat, but Yui joined the battle before Nai sent her to treat wounded allies. Nai then revealed powerful Ice Release, prompting the enemy to suspect she belonged to the Yuki clan, as they prepared a combined counterattack.

• Nai Hyuga entered the mist and used an ice needle to freeze an enemy ninja.
• Yui blew away the mist with Flying Ninjutsu and killed a ninja with Hakutaku.
• Nai Hyuga redirected Yui to treat two wounded Land of Whirlpools ninja while she held off the remaining enemies.
• An enemy ninja recognized Nai Hyuga's Ice Release and asked whether she was from the Yuki clan.
• Nai Hyuga shattered the captain's Ice Wall with Flash-freeze Ice Spikes as the eight other ninjas completed a Water Dragon Bullet Technique.

Nai Hyuga defeated the attackers with her Ice Release and killed their captain, Yoru Yuki, after he tried to trick her. Yui reunited with her, and the two red-haired brothers thanked them for their help before familiar chakra approached.

• Nai Hyuga froze the attackers with Ice Release, but noticed one had escaped.
• Nai Hyuga caught up with Yoru Yuki and killed him after using her Byakugan to evade his poisoned needle.
• Nai Hyuga reflected on how her powerful Ice Release techniques consumed too much chakra.
• Yui arrived and checked that Nai Hyuga was unharmed.
• Two red-haired brothers thanked Yui and Nai Hyuga for saving them, then grew tense at approaching footsteps.
• Yui and Nai Hyuga sensed that the approaching chakra was familiar.

After the Kirigakure invasion was repelled, Mito prepared to seal Yui and spoke with Xiao You about its abilities. She also gave Nai Hyuga a scroll of water release ninjutsu left by the Second Hokage, hoping it could help Nai develop her Ice Release.

• Mito arrived with reinforcements and thanked Yui and Nai Hyuga for saving the Uzumaki Clan members.
• Mito assessed the attack as a Kirigakure probe and warned that further invasions could follow.
• Mito led Yui and Nai Hyuga to a room covered in sealing jutsu to prepare for Yui's seal.
• Mito met Xiao You and said she wanted to discuss its abilities before deciding on a sealing method.
• Mito gave Nai Hyuga a scroll of water release ninjutsu left by the Second Hokage as a reward for her help.

Yui, Nai Hyuga, and Xiao You prepared to seal the Evil God's Cursed Seal on Yui, with Mito offering Nine-Tails chakra to support the technique. The sealing began as Yui activated Sage Mode to suppress the mark.

• Nai Hyuga accepted the Second Hokage's Water Release Ninjutsu from Mito and thanked her.
• Xiao You explained that it could strengthen and cast Sealing Jutsu, while Mito revealed she could use Nine-Tails chakra.
• Xiao You agreed to lead the sealing, and Mito took the group to a quiet room with a patterned platform.
• Yui sat on the platform, exposed the Cursed Seal, released her Yin Seal, and activated Sage Mode.

Yui, Mito, and Xiao You sealed the Cursed Seal using an enhanced Evil Sealing Method, but the Nine-Tails betrayed Mito and emerged through the opening in her seal. The chapter ended with the Nine-Tails declaring that Yui had to die.

• Mito recognized Yui's Shikkotsu Forest senjutsu and agreed to keep it secret, then turned the group’s attention to sealing the Cursed Seal.
• Xiao You began the enhanced Evil Sealing Method, causing Yui intense pain as golden symbols and reinforcing patterns wrapped around the Cursed Seal.
• Mito supplied Xiao You with Nine-Tails chakra after Xiao You said her own chakra was nearly exhausted.
• Xiao You completed the seal and told Yui that the Evil God inside could no longer harm them.
• Mito clutched her abdomen as dark red chakra poured from her, and the Nine-Tails revealed that it had used the opening in Mito’s seal to try to break free.
• The Nine-Tails told Mito that Yui had to die and said it would kill her itself.

The Nine-Tails emerged as chakra from Mito's seal and attacked Yui, but Mito restrained it before it could cause serious harm. Later, the Nine-Tails told Mito it had only been testing whether the Evil God Cursed Seal on Yui was fully sealed, while warning that it could still break free.

• Yui saw the Nine-Tails' chakra emerge from Mito's seal and suspected it had come to kill her because of the Evil God Cursed Seal.
• The Nine-Tails began forming an attack against Yui, but an approaching black-haired woman struck it with Ice Spikes and distracted it.
• Mito used Adamantine Sealing Chains to drag the Nine-Tails' chakra back into her body, and it warned that Yui's seal could not suppress the evil mark.
• Yui checked on Mito, who left to rest after the sealing ritual, while Yui sent a Shadow Clone to guard her.
• In the Sealing Space, Mito questioned the restrained Nine-Tails, which claimed it had tested whether Yui's mark was completely sealed and warned that it might break through.

Mito interrogated the Nine-Tails about why it had tried to leave the Sealing Space, then returned to her residence as her failing seal left her only two or three months to live. On the way back to their lodgings, Yui explained tailed beasts and jinchūriki to Nai Hyuga, who began considering how she might obtain the Nine-Tails’ power.

• Mito tightened her Adamantine Sealing Chains and questioned the Nine-Tails, which insisted it had only gone outside to test the seal.
• After Mito left, the Nine-Tails revealed that it had also wanted to test whether an evil will inside the girl would emerge, but it had chosen not to kill her.
• Mito returned home and estimated that her seal would last only another two or three months, possibly requiring the Nine-Tails to be transferred in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Yui learned through her Shadow Clone that Mito had returned safely, while she and Nai Hyuga continued back to their lodgings.
• Yui explained that the Nine-Tails was inside Mito and that Mito might be seeking its next jinchūriki; Nai Hyuga began thinking about obtaining its power.

Nai Hyuga considered how she might obtain the Nine-Tails, while Yui discovered that the Evil God Cursed Seal had left her unable to gather senjutsu chakra. Yui sought help from Shobue, who found an old book containing information about the cursed seal.

• Nai Hyuga decided she would seize the Nine-Tails if she got the chance and thought Xiao You could help her with the Sealing Jutsu needed to become a Jinchūriki.
• After returning to her room, Yui sensed that the seal had not suppressed the Evil God Cursed Seal and found that she could no longer gather senjutsu chakra.
• Yui summoned Katsuyu and asked to be taken to Shikkotsu Forest so she could speak with Shobue.
• Yui told Shobue about Xiao You's knowledge, Evil God Nami's cursed seal, the failed sealing attempt, and her inability to enter Sage Mode.
• Shobue recognized the cursed seal and found an old book with information about it.

Yui learned that the Evil God Cursed Seal had sealed away a will, causing its power to leak and transform her body. Reassured by Shobue that the changes might give her an immortal body and that the Evil God was unlikely to manifest soon, Yui prepared to return to the Land of Whirlpools.

• Yui read an old book describing the Undying Demon and found an Evil God Cursed Seal illustration matching the mark on her neck.
• Shobue explained that the seal had trapped a will, making the cursed seal's power run wild and cause Yui's burning sensation.
• Yui used her Byakugan and discovered that chakra was leaking from her chakra pathways, and she still could not gather senjutsu chakra.
• Shobue suggested the power was transforming Yui's body and that she might gain an immortal body before using chakra and senjutsu normally again.
• Yui accepted Shobue's reassurance that the Evil God was sealed and unlikely to manifest soon, thanked her, and prepared to return to the Land of Whirlpools.

Shobue persuaded Yui to try on a white-and-blue kimono patterned with blue butterflies, then revealed its unusual protective and self-repairing properties. As dawn approached, Shobue reminded Yui that her Summoning Technique would wear off and urged her to return.

• Shobue stopped Yui from leaving and offered her a new outfit because Yui's clothes were worn out.
• Yui hesitated over the kimono's long sleeves, but Shobue explained that it came with trousers and would not hinder her movements.
• Yui tried on the Blue Butterfly kimono and found it comfortable, while its wooden sandals could channel chakra.
• Shobue explained that the kimono resisted blades, absorbed chakra, and repaired itself when torn.
• Shobue noticed the moon sinking and urged Yui to return before her Summoning Technique wore off.

Yui discovered the Evil God’s Blood Curse and Soul Curse in her mind after a nightmare, but was relieved to find her chakra stable and began gathering senjutsu chakra for the Yin Seal. Meanwhile, Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo reached the Land of Whirlpools with Danzo’s group to protect the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while Danzo secretly sent his ninja to conceal themselves.

• After Yui returned home and fell asleep, the Evil God’s cursed seal enveloped her in a bloody nightmare.
• Yui woke and found the Blood Curse and an unfamiliar Soul Curse in her mind, then decided not to use the Evil God’s power unless necessary.
• Yui confirmed that her chakra no longer drained away and that she could store senjutsu chakra, so she began gathering it for the Yin Seal.
• Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, Danzo, and their ninja emerged from the sea off the Land of Whirlpools after traveling underwater from the Land of Hot Water.
• Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo headed toward the ninja village to find and protect the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while Danzo ordered his ninja to hide and carry out his earlier assignments.

Yui left her room and agreed to help Uesugi Yuri’s mother with the Flying Ninjutsu. Tsunade told Yui that Konoha’s reinforcements had arrived, but Yui declined to meet them and continued with Yuri toward the training ground.

• Yui found Nai Hyuga and Xiao You absent, then met Uesugi Yuri in the street.
• Yuri asked Yui to help her mother, who was struggling to practice Yui’s Flying Ninjutsu, and Yui agreed.
• Tsunade stopped Yui and Yuri, lamented losing her money, then reported that Konoha’s reinforcements had arrived.
• Yui declined Tsunade’s invitation to see the reinforcements because she no longer had ties to Konoha.
• Yuri continued leading Yui toward her mother at the training ground.

Yui examined Uesugi Io’s difficulty with a flying Wind Release technique and explained how to improve her chakra control. While Yui began considering a new way to fly, Nai Hyuga secretly followed Mito and Kushina as they headed to the reception hall.

• Uesugi Yuri introduced Yui to her mother, Uesugi Io, who was struggling to master a flying ninjutsu.
• Yui used her Byakugan to inspect Io’s technique and identified poor chakra control in the soles of her feet as the problem.
• Yui advised Io to practice controlling the chakra in her feet, and Io went to train at the wooden posts.
• Yui watched seagulls and began thinking about creating chakra wings for a new flying ninjutsu.
• Nai Hyuga brought Xiao You along to secretly follow Mito, who was escorting Kushina toward the reception hall.
• Kushina asked Mito about her parents, then said her best friend had to come to Konoha with them too.

Mito agreed to take Kushina to meet the Konoha shinobi, while Nai Hyuga secretly followed them with Xiao You and intimidated the mouse into keeping her nature from Yui. Mito arrived at the reception room, where she found Orochimaru, Tsunade, Hatake Sakumo, and Danzo, who fixed his attention on Kushina.

• Mito agreed to bring Uesugi Yuri along, then took Kushina to meet the Konoha shinobi who had arrived in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Nai Hyuga and Xiao You avoided detection using a concealing sealing jutsu, and Nai threatened Xiao You into promising not to tell Yui about her true personality.
• Orochimaru, Tsunade, Hatake Sakumo, and Danzo waited in the reception room while Ashimura Uzumaki worried that Konoha had sent too few shinobi to defend the Land of Whirlpools.
• Mito entered the reception room with Kushina and greeted the Konoha shinobi.
• Danzo rose to pay his respects but watched Kushina instead of Mito.

Mito revealed that the seal holding the Nine-Tails inside her would fail in two months and that she had chosen Kushina as its next jinchuriki. She planned to teach Kushina her sealing techniques and transfer the beast in the Land of Whirlpools if they could not return to Konoha.

• Mito asked Danzo how many people he had brought, and he claimed he had only eight ANBU ninja, though Sakumo remembered seeing sixteen.
• Mito dismissed the others and sealed the room before telling the group she had chosen Kushina as the next Nine-Tails jinchuriki.
• Nai listened from the roof after Xiao You helped her bypass Mito's sound-blocking seal.
• Mito told everyone that her seal would fail in two months, and Tsunade embraced her in tears.
• Mito refused to reconsider her fate and said she would teach Kushina her sealing jutsu before transferring the Nine-Tails in the Land of Whirlpools if necessary.

Mito negotiated with Danzo to take twenty Uzumaki sealing experts to Konoha before the Nine-Tails Transfer, while Nai Hyuga secretly planned to keep Mito in the Land of Whirlpools so she could claim the tailed beast’s power. Mito sensed Nai’s presence, and the chapter ended with Yui developing a new Flying Ninjutsu.

• Mito asked Danzo to bring Uzumaki sealing experts back to Konoha, and Danzo agreed to take twenty people.
• Mito comforted Tsunade and warned the others that the ninja outside would soon attack.
• Nai Hyuga overheard the planned transfer and decided to make the Nine-Tails’ seal weaken faster so the transfer would happen in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Nai left with Xiao You, while Mito sensed her presence and wondered what she was plotting.
• Yui carved ideas for a new Flying Ninjutsu into a branch at the Training Ground.

Yui sensed a hidden ninja after Uesugi Yuri brought her a thank-you lunch, then tracked the chakra to a secret underground passage beneath a dilapidated wooden house. She found a masked man in a black robe searching a chest and attacked him with Shuriken.

• Uesugi Yuri brought Yui a lunch made by her mother, and Yui ate it before sending Yuri home.
• Yui sensed an unusual chakra fluctuation in the Jungle and told Yuri to leave while she investigated.
• Yui followed footprints into a dilapidated wooden house and found a concealed passage behind a water jar.
• Yui descended the passage and spotted a black-robed man wearing a smiling white mask as he searched a cobweb-covered chest.
• Yui swept her sleeve and sent Shuriken toward the masked man.

Yui Hyuga killed a Root ninja who had been searching the Land of Whirlpools for sealing jutsu and discovered his scroll of sealing formulas. After destroying the body and leaving the basement, she was ambushed by two hostile figures, one of whom attacked her with a blade.

• Yui Hyuga ambushed and killed a black-robed ninja, who recognized her as Yui Hyuga before he died.
• Yui identified the ninja as one of Danzo's Root operatives and found the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on his tongue.
• Yui searched the ninja's body and found a scroll of sealing formulas she had studied with Mito.
• Yui burned the body, examined a faded mural, and left the basement after cleaning up the evidence.
• Yui sensed two sources of killing intent outside and blocked a blade aimed at her face with a kunai.

Yui fought and killed two of Danzo's Root operatives, using the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist and Water Release. Afterward, her throat became parched, and she grew suspicious of the boxed meal Uesugi Yuri had given her before deciding to deal with the bodies.

• Yui recognized the masked ninjas as possible Root operatives and attacked them when they questioned her about Yi Bing.
• Yui sealed one ninja's chakra points with Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms, then used a Water Release technique to kill him and wound the other.
• Yui used the Body Flicker Technique to appear before the wounded ninja and kill him with her kunai.
• Yui became thirsty and noticed that her voice had turned hoarse, recalling Uesugi Yuri's warning not to drink water.
• Yui suspected the boxed meal might be connected to her condition or Uesugi Io, but could not reach a conclusion and turned to deal with the bodies.

After returning from killing intruders, Yui chose to trust Uesugi Yuri’s advice and found Nai Hyuga waiting at her room. Nai decided to reveal that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was in the Land of Whirlpools to provoke the gathered ninja into attacking, hoping to obtain a Tailed Beast.

• Yui burned the two intruders’ corpses and cleared away the traces before heading back to her lodgings.
• Yui weighed whether to follow Uesugi Yuri’s advice about drinking water and decided to trust her.
• Yui found Nai Hyuga waiting in her room and learned that Xiao You was asleep in Nai’s room.
• Yui told Nai that outsiders might be waiting for supplies to run low or fearing the Land of Whirlpools’ Sealing Jutsu before attacking.
• Nai took Xiao You from an iron cage and set out to tell the gathered ninja that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was in the Land of Whirlpools.