Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Feng drugged Nai Hyuga and had Sano take her to the laboratory to prepare to fuse her Byakugan. Meanwhile, Yui developed a Wind Release technique that let her fly, unaware of what had happened to Nai.

• Ikuko Hyuga escorted Nai Hyuga to Hyuga Feng, who had her injected with a blue liquid while Sano watched.
• Nai Hyuga lost consciousness, thinking she might never see Yui again, and Sano dragged her toward the laboratory at Hyuga Feng's command.
• Yui woke in her sealed room, ate a plate of food that had mysteriously appeared, and resumed researching ninjutsu.
• Yui tested using wind chakra beneath her feet to fly, but fell when she could not control the wind columns.
• Yui formed hand seals and successfully created the Wind Release: Wind-Riding Technique, then wondered whether Nai was all right.

Yui discovered that her unusually long-lived lab mouse could talk and had awakened mysterious memories, then accepted her as a summon after the mouse offered to become her servant. When Yui realized her original self had stayed home for three days, she set out at night with the mouse to investigate.

• Yui learned that the white mouse could speak and had gained memories after being knocked out, though she could not explain what they contained.
• Yui asked the mouse to become her summon, and the mouse agreed, thanking her for awakening her memories.
• Yui used a drop of her original self’s blood to complete the contract, and the mouse became her summon.
• Yui noticed that her original self had remained at home for three days and decided to investigate at night.
• Yui brought the mouse along and postponed naming her until they could see her original self.

Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Taji to secretly watch Hyuga Feng while weighing the strange events in the Hyuga Clan. Outside the sealed room, Yui and Little White Mouse discovered a way to communicate with Yui’s original, who asked how they had managed it.

• An ANBU reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Hyuga Clan head had been acting strangely and that two girls he had ordered investigated had disappeared.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Taji to watch Hyuga Feng without being discovered.
• Yui’s Shadow Clone discovered that the sealed room allowed spatial transportation, but she knew no Space-Time Ninjutsu or Summoning Technique to escape.
• Little White Mouse identified the seal as an intermediate chakra-absorbing Sealing Jutsu and said it could not break it with its current strength.
• Little White Mouse used golden light to open a temporary channel through the seal, allowing Yui’s Shadow Clone to speak to her original.
• Yui’s original heard the Shadow Clone and asked how she had managed to communicate through the seal.

Yui sent her Shadow Clone to investigate Nai Hyuga’s disappearance while caring for the exhausted white mouse. In the Hyuga underground laboratory, Nai learned that Hyuga Feng had stolen her eyes and fabricated her identity, then asked whether Yui had been part of his deception.

• Yui asked her Shadow Clone to investigate Nai Hyuga and remove her seal, and requested a Summoning Technique scroll.
• The white mouse collapsed after sustaining the portal, so Yui fed her chakra; the mouse fell asleep in Yui’s pocket.
• In the underground laboratory, Hyuga Feng’s eye transplant caused him severe pain, and Sano injected him with the remaining sedative.
• Nai regained consciousness and demanded to know what had happened to her eyes.
• Hyuga Feng told Nai that her identity was fabricated and that the eyes belonged to his deceased younger sister.
• Nai asked whether Yui had also been planted in her life, and Hyuga Feng said he expected Yui to carry on the Hyuga bloodline.

Nai Hyuga was thrown into the Byakugan crystal sphere’s white water after defying Hyuga Feng, while Yui searched for her. Hiruzen Sarutobi learned of Hyuga Feng’s experiments but concealed Nai’s fate from Yui, leaving her waiting for an answer.

• Hyuga Feng ordered Sano to put Nai Hyuga in the white water, and Sano threw her into the crystal sphere despite warning that it could upset the balance.
• Yui searched the Hyuga Training Ground for Nai Hyuga, then decided to ask Hiruzen Sarutobi whether Nai had left on a mission.
• An ANBU reported Hyuga Feng’s Byakugan experiments and human experimentation to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who ordered the ANBU to keep watching and gather evidence.
• Yui visited Hiruzen Sarutobi and asked whether Nai Hyuga had gone on a mission with a ninja squad.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to hide Nai’s fate from Yui and consider using the mission as an excuse.

Yui learned that Nai Hyuga was safe and continued searching for a way to free her original body from the Caged Bird Seal. After failing to make progress with Space-Time Ninjutsu and being unable to buy a Summoning Technique scroll, she bought two other ninjutsu and was spotted by someone who recognized her.

• Yui visited Hiruzen Sarutobi as a Shadow Clone and learned that Nai Hyuga had left the village on a mission for a few months.
• Yui continued researching Space-Time Ninjutsu and chakra nature transformation, creating a powerful Water Release sphere that exhausted her chakra.
• Yui's Shadow Clone learned that the ninjutsu shop could not sell her a Summoning Technique scroll.
• Yui bought Water Formation Wall and Gale Palm for a hundred thousand ryo and learned how to use the storage scroll they came in.
• An unidentified person watched Yui leave the shop and wondered how she had gotten out.

Jiraiya received a prophecy about meeting a horned, blue-eyed woman and returned to Konoha, where Yui Hyuga witnessed a toad use the Summoning Technique. Jiraiya recognized Yui but dismissed her as the woman in the prophecy, then made her uncomfortable by staring at her.

• The Toad Sage told Jiraiya he would meet a white-skinned woman with two horns and glowing blue eyes who would change his destiny, and that he would receive another prophecy in five years.
• Jiraiya declined Fukasaku's offer of a bug meal and returned to Konoha through a summoning.
• At Training Ground No. 7, Yui practiced Water Release: Water Formation Wall and watched an orange-red toad perform the Summoning Technique.
• Jiraiya appeared before Yui, who recognized him and memorized the toad's hand seals.
• Jiraiya recalled Yui Hyuga from the Ninja Academy but decided she did not match the prophecy, then stared at her until she covered herself and grew angry.

Yui learned that Little White Mouse’s bloodline contract allowed her to summon it, then began teaching it the Summoning Technique so it could rescue her original self. Later, Yui developed a weaker, multiple-projectile version of her Water Release technique and reflected on her limited arsenal of ninjutsu and Taijutsu.

• Yui asked Jiraiya whether the Summoning Technique could transport a Shadow Clone, and he said he was unsure and thought a contract was necessary.
• Yui returned to the laboratory, where Little White Mouse had awakened, and learned that their existing contract was called a bloodline contract.
• Yui tested the Summoning Technique and successfully summoned Little White Mouse from its cage using their bloodline contract.
• Yui learned that Little White Mouse could use chakra but knew no ninjutsu, so she began teaching it the Summoning Technique to bring her original self out of the room.
• At the Hyuga Clan, Yui successfully developed Water Release: Multiple Water Extremes, a weaker version of Water Extreme that created several water spheres for the chakra cost of one.

Yui tried to bring Little White Mouse to the Laboratory so they could use the Summoning Technique to rescue her original body, but Ikuko Hyuga caught her near her home. After revealing her half Caged Bird Seal, Ikuko fought back Yui’s attack and prepared to teach her how to use the Byakugan.

• Little White Mouse told Yui she could use the Summoning Technique but needed Yui’s chakra and a drop of her blood.
• Yui spotted Ikuko Hyuga outside her home and hid with Little White Mouse in a nearby alley.
• Ikuko found Yui with her Byakugan, so Yui instructed Little White Mouse to escape and seek help from Yamada Hideko.
• Ikuko revealed that she had half a Caged Bird Seal and said she belonged to the Branch Family.
• Yui attacked Ikuko with Wind Release: Gale Palm, but Ikuko countered with Eight Trigrams Palm: Rotation.
• Ikuko activated her Byakugan and told Yui she would teach her how to use it.

Yui’s Shadow Clone fought Ikuko Hyuga and, before being dispelled, learned that Ikuko’s account of Nai Hyuga’s whereabouts did not match what Yui had been told. Ikuko left without explaining what had happened to Nai, while her thoughts returned to the little mouse in the alley.

• Yui used Water Release and repeated Gale Palms against Ikuko, who blocked and reflected the attacks with Rotation.
• Ikuko exploited the blind spot in Yui’s Byakugan and struck her with Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms, sealing her chakra points.
• Before Ikuko could dispel her, Yui asked her to look after Nai Hyuga and questioned what had happened to her.
• Ikuko said Nai was in the clan teaching Gentle Fist, contradicting what Yui knew, then dispelled Yui’s Shadow Clone without revealing more.
• Ikuko left the wreckage and, while walking home, remembered the fluffy-tailed mouse in the alley.

Little White Mouse searched Konoha for Yamada Hideko after failing to retrieve blood, while Ikuko Hyuga used her secret Byakugan technique to track it. Yui learned that her Shadow Clone had been dispelled and questioned what she had been told about Nai Hyuga, as the mouse’s search ended with a Uchiha policeman picking it up.

• Little White Mouse found the door locked because it had forgotten to get the key from its Master, then left to look for Yamada Hideko.
• Ikuko Hyuga returned to the alley, activated Byakugan, and used her secret Visual Tracking technique to follow Little White Mouse’s footprints.
• Yui recovered from the flood of memories caused by her Shadow Clone’s dispelling and wondered whether Ikuko Hyuga or the Hokage had lied about Nai Hyuga.
• Little White Mouse asked passersby where Yamada Hideko was, drawing a crowd and attracting the Konoha Military Police Force.
• A Uchiha policeman landed in the crowd’s clearing, stepped on Little White Mouse’s tail, then picked it up as it cried.

Yui Hyuga’s mouse, captured while trying to escape, was sealed by Ikuko Hyuga but escaped through Yui’s summoning. Back with Yui, the mouse received the name Xiao You and learned that Yui considered them family.

• Chengdou and his patrol mistook Little White Mouse for a possible spy Summoning Beast until Ikuko Hyuga explained it belonged to Yui Hyuga.
• Little White Mouse escaped Chengdou, but Ikuko caught it and applied a Contract Seal before carrying it away.
• Yui heard Little White Mouse’s plea for help and used the Summoning Technique, allowing it to break the seal and return to her.
• Yui named Little White Mouse Xiao You and told it to call her by name because they were family.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo discussed Hyuga Feng’s Byakugan experiments and agreed to delay Root’s intervention until the Hyuga Clan’s next heir had grown up. Meanwhile, Yui used the Summoning Technique to escape her sealed room, leaving Xiao You behind.

• Taji reported that Hyuga Feng had collected the Byakugan of deceased Main Family members and experimented on orphans brought to Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Danzo the evidence and assigned Root to handle the matter, warning him to avoid harming innocents and to wait until the Hyuga Clan’s next heir had grown up.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Taji to keep monitoring Hyuga Feng.
• Yui prepared to escape with Xiao You and used the Summoning Technique, successfully vanishing from the room.
• Xiao You fell to the floor after Yui disappeared and wondered where she had gone.

Yui escaped a spacetime rift into a strange blue forest, where a poisonous swamp nearly killed her before she found a remedy in the trees. After three days of searching for a way back to Konoha and Nai Hyuga, she spotted an unusual rounded mountain range and flew toward it.

• Yui entered a ring of light and plunged from the sky toward a vast forest of pale blue trees.
• Yui landed in a poisonous swamp, but crushed blue leaves that healed the cells in her feet.
• Yui chose not to summon Little White Mouse and set out to find a way back to Konoha and Nai Hyuga.
• After three days of flying through the empty forest, Yui spotted a mountain range and headed toward it despite its unusual rounded shape.

Yui reached Shikkotsu Forest and met Katsuyu, who explained that only a year had passed while Yui was lost in spatial turbulence. Although Katsuyu offered to teach her Senjutsu, Yui insisted on returning to Konoha to find Nai Hyuga, leaving Katsuyu determined to persuade her.

• Yui recognized the enormous slug as Katsuyu and explained that spatial turbulence had brought her to Shikkotsu Forest.
• Katsuyu told Yui that time flowed differently in spatial turbulence, and Yui learned that a year had passed since she entered it in Konoha Year 26.
• Katsuyu explained that corrosive liquid around the forest’s edge came from her and kept the toads away, then grew angry when Yui asked about the other human who had reached the forest.
• Katsuyu offered to teach Yui Senjutsu, but Yui refused because she needed to return to Konoha and find Nai Hyuga.
• Katsuyu resolved to try to persuade Yui to learn Senjutsu after Yui turned down her offer.

Yui agreed to sign a Summoning Contract with Katsuyu after explaining how the Hyuga Clan had imprisoned her, but she learned she could not return to Konoha until Katsuyu’s clone was summoned there. Katsuyu healed Yui and carried her through a beautiful landscape, then left her to wait for Katsuyu’s much larger main body.

• Yui told Katsuyu that a friend had gone missing in Konoha and agreed to learn Senjutsu after finding her.
• Katsuyu offered Yui a Summoning Contract and explained that she could not send Yui to Konoha until her clone was summoned there.
• Yui explained how the Hyuga Clan had imprisoned her, and Katsuyu assured her that she could sign a second Summoning Contract.
• Katsuyu carried Yui farther into the landscape, healed her wounds, and learned that Yui was thirteen and had unusually large chakra reserves.
• Katsuyu showed Yui a vast lake and mountain range, then left to bring her main body, which she said was five times larger than the one Yui had seen.

Yui reunited with Xiao You and met Katsuyu in her transformed human appearance. Katsuyu prepared a Summoning Contract for Yui, and the chapter ended with them discussing Tsunade, whom Yui already knew as a classmate.

• Yui summoned Xiao You and apologized for leaving her in the sealing chamber, then explained the spacetime rift.
• Katsuyu arrived in the form of a tall woman, and Yui and Xiao You learned that she used the Transformation Technique to meet them.
• Katsuyu introduced herself to Xiao You and invited Yui to sign a Summoning Contract.
• Katsuyu showed Xiao You a small bug splitting from her arm as a glimpse of her original form.
• Yui saw Tsunade and Hashirama Senju's names on the contract scroll, and Katsuyu suggested she get to know Tsunade.
• Yui told Katsuyu that she already knew Tsunade because they were classmates.

Yui signed the Summoning Contract with Katsuyu and considered how to remove her Caged Bird Seal, but declined to spend years learning Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu. Meanwhile, Hyuga Feng’s transplanted Byakugan fully integrated, revealing a new power as he discovered an intruder in his Laboratory.

• Yui signed her name in blood on the Summoning Contract, and Katsuyu confirmed that was all she needed to do.
• Yui told Katsuyu she wanted to remove her Caged Bird Seal, and Katsuyu urged her to learn Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu first.
• Katsuyu explained that learning Senjutsu could take years, so Yui declined and said she would prepare tools to remove the seal in a few days, with Katsuyu’s help.
• Hyuga Feng removed his blindfold after Sano reported that his transplanted Byakugan had reached full integration.
• Hyuga Feng activated his Byakugan, noticed his chakra draining into his eyes, and detected a disguised black-clad ninja hiding in the Laboratory.
• Hyuga Feng gathered chakra and began forming an unfamiliar technique toward the intruder, while Sano watched the chakra flow into Hyuga Feng’s right hand.

Hyuga Feng fought off an intruder who claimed to be from Kumogakure, while Yui prepared to remove her Caged Bird Seal despite the danger to her eyes. The intruder’s identity remained uncertain, and Yui stayed determined after Katsuyu revealed her eyes had a chance of surviving.

• Hyuga Feng pursued a black-clad intruder through the Laboratory with a Byakugan laser until the man let himself be hit and died.
• Sano restored some of Hyuga Feng’s chakra, and Ikuko Hyuga arrived to investigate how the intruder had entered.
• Hyuga Feng found a cloak that resisted his laser and a Kumogakure forehead protector on the corpse, but he and Sano could not confirm the man’s identity.
• Yui asked Katsuyu to help her remove the Caged Bird Seal by putting her into suspended animation, but Katsuyu initially refused.
• Katsuyu examined Yui’s eyes and said there was about a twenty percent chance of saving them, but Yui remained determined to proceed.

Yui used Lightning Release to enter a deathlike state so Katsuyu could remove her Cursed Seal, while Xiao You sensed her presence disappear outside the room. Meanwhile, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade debated how to approach an S-rank mission and agreed to verify the enemy camp with summoned scouts.

• Yui learned that Katsuyu's Acid Mist Healing could stimulate her brain, then prepared to use Lightning Release to enter a deathlike state.
• Yui pressed Lightning Release chakra to her temple and endured the pain until her brain activity and connection through the Summoning Contract disappeared.
• Xiao You sensed that it could no longer feel Yui but stayed outside her room so it would not disrupt the Cursed Seal removal.
• Katsuyu placed her hand over Yui's eyes and decided to wait fifteen seconds before waking her if the Cursed Seal had not disappeared.
• Jiraiya reported seeing six rogue ninja at a camp, but Orochimaru questioned whether they had really gathered there.
• Tsunade proposed that Jiraiya and Orochimaru send summoning beasts to scout again, and both agreed to verify the intelligence before acting.