Chapter Summaries

Gua left the confrontation with the Kumogakure group, and the Third Hokage ended the dispute before it could escalate. As Gua headed home with his family, Itachi, and Izumi, Orochimaru and Kakashi secretly followed him, leaving Kakashi suspicious of Orochimaru’s interest in Gua.

• Gua walked away from the confrontation, and Itachi, Izumi, Uchiha Nai, and Uchiha Oyama followed him while Orochimaru left Kakashi to handle the situation.
• The Third Hokage ended the dispute, and Samui apologized on Karui’s behalf before asking to stay in Konoha with her group.
• Danzo urged the Third Hokage to act against the Uchiha after Gua awakened his Sharingan, but the Third Hokage rejected his demand and walked away.
• Uchiha Nai invited Itachi and Izumi home with the family, and Gua agreed to the invitation.
• Orochimaru followed Gua because he wanted his advice on new technology and Impure World Reincarnation, while Kakashi followed to protect Gua and grew suspicious of Orochimaru.

Gua’s parents welcomed Itachi and Izumi warmly, and Nai fussed over Izumi throughout dinner while Gua and Itachi competed for the food. After walking Itachi home, Gua accompanied Izumi to her quiet, sparsely lived-in house, where the silence unsettled him.

• Gua’s father chatted with Izumi while helping Nai prepare dinner, embarrassing Gua with a story about how Izumi’s mother had encouraged him to pursue Nai.
• At dinner, Nai repeatedly served Izumi the best food, while Itachi ate most of the potato croquettes and Gua grabbed what remained.
• Nai ordered Gua to walk Izumi home, and Gua agreed despite noticing that the sun had not yet set.
• Gua walked Itachi to the Uchiha clan leader’s enormous home before continuing with Izumi.
• Gua accompanied Izumi inside her small, neglected house and was struck by its eerie silence.

Gua stopped outside the Hyuga Clan Compound on Hinata Hyuga’s birthday, when Kumogakure agents abducted her. The agents fled through the woods but realized a child had spotted them.

• Gua remembered that Hinata Hyuga’s birthday coincided with the abduction that led to Hizashi Hyuga’s death, and stopped at the Hyuga Clan Compound.
• Hinata Hyuga heard Hizashi and Neji return home before two black-clad Kumogakure agents broke into her room and seized her.
• Hizashi discovered Hinata was missing, activated his Byakugan, and pursued the kidnappers.
• The Kumogakure agents carried Hinata through the woods, intending to take her Byakugan back to Kumogakure.
• The lead agent stopped on a treetop after spotting a child in the woods.

Gua intercepted two Kumogakure men abducting Hinata and defeated them after revealing his two-tomoe Sharingan. Orochimaru and Kakashi watched in shock, unable to understand how Gua had awakened the second tomoe.

• Gua confronted the two black-clad Kumogakure men carrying Hinata, and one nearly escaped with her.
• Gua revealed his two-tomoe Sharingan and kicked one attacker into a tree, breaking his ribs.
• The remaining attacker threw Hinata away and fled, but Gua used the Clone Technique to protect her and pursue him.
• Gua caught the second man and knocked him out of the tree with a side kick.
• Orochimaru and Kakashi watched Gua's fight and wondered what had triggered his sudden awakening.

Gua captured the two Kumogakure kidnappers and rescued Hinata Hyuga. After Hizashi arrived and offered to handle the captives, Gua agreed to take Hinata home.

• The captured man in black begged Gua to spare him, and Gua agreed to take the two captives to the Hokage.
• Gua's clone brought Hinata to him after confirming she was unharmed.
• Hizashi arrived, checked Hinata, and thanked Gua for rescuing her.
• Hizashi recognized Gua and felt ashamed that an Uchiha had saved a Hyuga girl from a clan the Hyuga had helped suppress.
• Hizashi asked Gua to escort Hinata home while he took the two captives to the Hokage, and Gua agreed.

Gua escorted Hinata back to the Hyuga Compound while struggling with his thoughts about Izumi, and Hinata noticed he seemed unhappy. After Neji thanked him for bringing Hinata home, Gua headed back to his parents, who were imagining he might bring home a future bride.

• Hizashi discovered that the two Kumogakure envoys had died from poison concealed in their teeth.
• Hinata took Gua's hand and told him she thought he looked unhappy before introducing herself.
• Gua and Hinata reached the Hyuga Compound, where Neji recognized Gua and anxiously checked Hinata was safe.
• Neji thanked Gua and invited him inside, but Gua left to return home to his waiting mother.
• Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama joked about Gua being out late with a girl just as he opened the door.

Gua withdrew from school and spent several days trying to understand how to face suffering, prompting his family and friends to worry about him. Orochimaru came to counsel him, but Kakashi suddenly attacked Orochimaru, and someone intervened just as their fight was about to turn deadly.

• Gua stayed home for several days, pondering how to prevent suffering and how to face war, loneliness, and pain.
• Itachi, Izumi, and Kakashi took leave to sit quietly beside Gua, and Orochimaru later arrived after telling Dashan that Gua was depressed.
• Orochimaru advised Gua not to take everyone else's loneliness upon himself, and Gua realized Orochimaru had been secretly following him.
• Kakashi attacked Orochimaru, and the two exchanged swift blows until they both prepared to force a mutual kill.
• Two hands landed on Kakashi's and Orochimaru's shoulders, stopping the fight at the last moment.

Gua refused Orochimaru’s offer to help him find answers, while Kakashi and Itachi each misunderstood his intentions. Meanwhile, Konoha and the Hyuga Clan struggled to respond to Kumogakure’s demand that Hizashi be handed over, and the clan rejected a series of increasingly absurd proposals.

• Orochimaru stopped his attack on Kakashi when Gua intervened, and Gua told them not to fight in his room.
• Itachi urged Gua not to listen to Orochimaru, but Gua declined Orochimaru’s offer and said he wanted to find his own answers.
• Orochimaru sat beside Gua with Izumi, Itachi, and Kakashi, and they all spent the afternoon idling together.
• Hizashi’s killing of two Kumogakure envoys led Kumogakure to demand that Konoha hand him over, and Orochimaru threatened to break Gua out of prison and defect if Hiruzen Sarutobi surrendered him.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the clan elders debated how to answer the crisis, rejecting proposals to hand over Hizashi, give Kumogakure a Byakugan, defect, or sacrifice an Uchiha child.

Hyuga Hiashi visited Uchiha Fugaku and persuaded him to form an alliance between their clans over Kumogakure’s demands. The Third Hokage collapsed after Danzo urged him to eliminate both clans, and Danzo ordered Root to increase surveillance at the Medical Room.

• Hiashi told Fugaku that Gua had saved his daughter and asked the Uchiha to stand with the Hyuga rather than surrender Hizashi.
• Hiashi proposed a lasting alliance, and Fugaku agreed to join forces with the Hyuga Clan.
• The Third Hokage received the clans’ jointly signed letter and spent the day shut away in his office, while Shikaku waited outside.
• Danzo burst into the Hokage’s office and called for the Uchiha and Hyuga to be killed, after which the Third Hokage lost consciousness.
• Medical Ninja treated the Third Hokage for overwork and excessive smoking, and Danzo ordered a Root ninja to increase surveillance at the Medical Room.

After the Third was admitted to the Medical Room, Gua learned that the Hyuga and Uchiha were openly forming an alliance while Kumogakure’s demands put the Third under strain. Unable to enter the Medical Room and seeing a Root operative guarding it, Gua feared Danzo would exploit the Third’s condition to take the Hokage title.

• Dashan told Nai that the Third had been admitted to the Medical Room, and Orochimaru and Kakashi hurried out to check on him.
• Izumi told Gua about the conflict with Kumogakure, and Itachi revealed that the Hyuga and Uchiha were forming an alliance.
• Gua worried that the Third might die and that the Uchiha would be forced to leave Konoha, so he went to the Medical Room with Itachi and Izumi.
• A Root operative blocked Gua, Itachi, and Izumi from entering, while Kakashi said that he could not get inside either.
• Gua recognized the guard as Root and feared Danzo would seize the Hokage title if the Third died.

Gua anxiously waited while Orochimaru treated the Third Hokage, then learned Danzo had taken control of the situation. The next day, Danzo became Acting Hokage, leaving Gua convinced the Uchiha massacre might be imminent.

• Gua waited outside the Medical Room until Orochimaru emerged and confirmed the Third Hokage would recover after a few days of rest.
• Orochimaru discovered Danzo's Root operatives were guarding the Third and confronted Kakashi about the absence of the Hokage's Anbu.
• Gua left, grumbled about Fugaku's poor judgment, and kicked Naruto Uzumaki when Naruto challenged him to a fight.
• Gua returned home fearing the Uchiha clan was in danger, and the village announced that Danzo would serve as Acting Hokage while the Third was critically ill.

Danzo became the Fourth-and-a-Half Hokage and escalated Konoha’s conflict with Kumogakure while preparing to move against the Uchiha and Hyuga. Gua warned his parents that the Uchiha might be destroyed, but his family stayed in Konoha with their belongings packed, and Itachi refused to flee.

• Danzo rejected Kumogakure’s demands for the Byakugan, prompting the Fourth Raikage A to order renewed attacks on Konoha.
• Danzo sent troops to the border and dismissed Kumogakure’s offer to settle for one Byakugan, while planning to purge the Uchiha and weaken the Hyuga.
• Gua urged Uchiha Nai and Dashan to defect, explaining that Danzo might destroy the Uchiha within a month.
• Gua’s parents agreed to prepare to leave but decided to wait and see, keeping their packed belongings ready.
• Gua asked Itachi to prepare to flee, but Itachi said he would live or die with the Uchiha and his father.
• Gua accepted Itachi’s choice and remained worried as the Third Hokage continued sleeping and danger mounted.

After Danzo moved against the Uchiha and Hyuga, Gua fled Konoha with his parents and headed for the Land of Earth. Meanwhile, Danzo prepared to consolidate his rule as the trapped Hyuga debated whether to make peace with the village.

• Danzo mustered troops and summoned the major clans, excluding the Uchiha and Hyuga, prompting Gua to flee Konoha with Oyama and Nai.
• Gua and his parents escaped through Konoha’s back gate and chose the Land of Earth as their destination.
• After crossing the Land of Grass, Gua heard that the Uchiha and Hyuga had allied and that Danzo had begun purging them.
• Danzo planned to eliminate the Uchiha and subdue the Hyuga while the Third Generation remained asleep.
• Root operatives sealed the Hyuga Compound for three days, and Hiashi warned Hizashi that Danzo would likely attack them.
• The Hyuga Grand Elder suggested making peace with the village rather than standing with the Uchiha.

Fugaku rallied the Uchiha to fight Konoha rather than surrender, while Itachi stayed behind to fight beside his father and Gua fled with his parents. At the Land of Earth border, Gua heard shuriken clanging in the woods as his parents went to hunt.

• Fugaku offered his life to spare the Uchiha, but the clansmen refused and pledged to fight Konoha for their honor.
• Fugaku used the Divine Blade to declare that the Uchiha would prevail, and the gathered clan answered with a roar.
• Fugaku recalled that Itachi had warned him about Danzo and Gua's advice to flee; Fugaku urged Itachi to leave with Gua, but six-year-old Itachi chose to stay and fight for his father.
• Gua traveled with his parents to the border of the Land of Earth and stopped to camp beside the Nian River.
• Gua's parents went into the woods to hunt, and Gua heard shuriken clanging nearby as he prepared to move away from the fire.

Gua watched a wounded gray-haired boy come under attack, but his parents arrived and the confrontation exposed their identities as Konoha deserters. As two Root operatives charged, Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama prepared to fight while Gua stood on his own.

• Gua hid and watched as a gray-haired boy approached the river, cried out in anguish, and was hit by a Root operative's shuriken.
• Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama rushed to the fire, mistook the wounded boy for Gua, and confronted the masked attacker.
• Gua revealed himself after stopping the wild chickens from escaping, and the Root operative recognized him as Uchiha Gua.
• The Root operative called for backup, and his companion arrived and identified Uchiha Oyama and Uchiha Nai as deserters.
• Uchiha Nai stood beside Uchiha Oyama with her kunai and warned Gua to protect himself as the two Root operatives charged.

Danzo moved to destroy the Uchiha while using clones to keep the Hyuga confined, but Hiashi ordered his clan to help the Uchiha. Hiruzen intervened and stopped the attack, while Tsunade delivered orders keeping the Hyuga inside their compound and warned that Hiruzen would question them.

• Danzo surrounded the Uchiha with Root operatives and used disguised clones to make the Hyuga believe their compound was also surrounded.
• After learning the Hyuga were facing clones, Hiashi initially hesitated but then ordered his clan to break out and save the Uchiha.
• Obito watched the standoff from Hokage Rock and noticed Jiraiya arrive at the Uchiha compound.
• Jiraiya presented the Third Hokage's handwritten order and told the village shinobi to withdraw from the Uchiha compound.
• Hiruzen confronted Danzo, announced that the incident was over, and took control of the situation.
• Tsunade delivered the Third's orders to the Hyuga, told them to stay inside, and warned Hizashi that Hiruzen would come to question them.

Gua killed a Root operative who threatened him as his parents dealt with the attackers and chose to spare a gray-haired boy. After spending the night by the river, the boy followed Gua and his parents as they continued their journey.

• Gua killed the Root operative who had tried to attack him, and Nai checked that he was unharmed.
• Gua considered killing the gray-haired boy, but Oyama and Nai chose to leave him alive and neither let him go nor confronted him.
• Gua and his parents roasted the wild chickens for dinner while the injured boy remained beside the river.
• At dawn, Gua and his parents set out, and the gray-haired boy rose and began following them.
• Oyama and Nai put away their kunai and kept walking as the boy trailed them in silence.

Gua and his parents reached the Land of Earth, only to learn it had been sealed off after the boy following them stole its confidential documents. They turned back toward the Land of Grass, allowing the grieving boy to continue following them.

• Gua and his parents left the woods and found the Land of Earth was a barren place.
• The boy told Uchiha Oyama that the Land of Earth was locked down because someone had stolen confidential documents, then revealed that he had stolen them.
• Uchiha Oyama scouted the border and confirmed the Land of Earth was inaccessible.
• Gua, Uchiha Oyama, and Uchiha Nai decided to return to the Land of Grass until the lockdown ended.
• Gua chose not to drive the boy away, and the boy continued following them as they headed back.

Gua and his parents settled temporarily in a poor town in the Land of Grass after they could not enter the Land of Earth. Gua rescued a starving boy, learned that he was Kabuto Yakushi, and silently regretted saving someone he expected to cause trouble in the future.

• Gua waited on a roadside rock while Dashan and Nai searched for an inn in the impoverished town.
• A boy who had followed Gua collapsed, and the townspeople ignored him.
• Gua bought two flatbreads, fed the boy, and gave him water despite the vendor's warning not to help.
• Dashan carried the unconscious boy to the inn, where he slept for a day and a night while Gua and his parents kept watch.
• The boy woke and introduced himself as Kabuto Yakushi, leaving Gua shocked and wishing he had not saved him.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to power, he stabilized Konoha’s crisis with the Hyuga and Uchiha clans, secured Kumogakure’s request for peace, and confined Danzo. Orochimaru was released but discovered that Gua and his family had disappeared.

• The Hyuga and Uchiha clans decided to back down and explain themselves to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been awake all along and had staged his apparent unconsciousness.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi released Orochimaru after learning how he had fought Danzo, while Danzo remained confined and cursed Hiruzen for making him a scapegoat.
• Kumogakure requested peace talks, and Hiruzen Sarutobi visited the Hyuga and Uchiha compounds to reassure them while rejecting an alliance between the clans.
• Orochimaru left the dungeon and rushed to Gua’s home, but found it empty.
• Orochimaru confronted Fugaku, who said Gua and his family had disappeared after the crisis, though he concealed that Gua had fled with his approval.