Recaps

Tianyun Hyuga demonstrated to Tenten that he could enhance ninja tools, and she brought him to her family's shop to show her father the improved kunai. Her father confirmed that it was twice as strong as the shop's specially made weapons.

• Tianyun Hyuga told Tenten he could strengthen ninja tools and persuaded her to test the ability in the training forest.
• Tianyun Hyuga used his system to enhance Tenten's kunai, and Tenten found its sharpness and hardness had doubled.
• Tenten promised Tianyun Hyuga three specially made kunai and hurried him to her family's weapon shop.
• Tenten showed the enhanced kunai to her father, who was astonished that it was twice as strong as his family's specially made weapons.

Tianyun Hyuga demonstrated his weapon-enhancing ninjutsu to Tiesheng at Tenten’s family shop and struck a deal to split the profits from selling enhanced weapons. He warned that his limited chakra would restrict production, and Tiesheng agreed to focus on premium weapons.

• Tenten showed her father, Tiesheng, a kunai enhanced by Tianyun Hyuga and explained his ability to strengthen weapons.
• Tiesheng paid Tianyun one million and watched him enhance another kunai, confirming that its sharpness and hardness had doubled.
• Tianyun told Tiesheng the technique was a bloodline ninjutsu that he could not learn, so Tiesheng proposed a business partnership with equal profit shares.
• Tianyun accepted and explained that he could enhance ten kunai-sized weapons per day, or one large weapon, because of his limited chakra.
• Tianyun urged Tiesheng to make scarcity a selling point, and Tiesheng agreed to supply premium weapons for enhancement.

Tianyun Hyuga finalized a deal with Tiesheng and spent three million to enhance the Three Body Technique again. After meeting Naruto Uzumaki at Ichiraku Ramen, he recruited him to help test the technique.

• Tianyun Hyuga left Tiesheng ten enhanced Kunai and headed to the Ninja Academy with Tenten, who reluctantly accompanied him at her father's insistence.
• Tianyun Hyuga sent Tenten into class, then went to Ichiraku Ramen and considered how to spend his 5.6 million in savings.
• Tianyun Hyuga spent three million to enhance the Three Body Technique a second time, deciding to test it after eating.
• Naruto Uzumaki arrived at Ichiraku Ramen, treated Tianyun Hyuga to a bowl, and eagerly agreed to help him with something.
• Tianyun Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki finished their ramen and left together.

Tianyun Hyuga tested his enhanced Three Body Technique against Naruto Uzumaki in a secluded Konoha grove. After Naruto failed to land a hit, Tianyun paid him for ramen and returned toward the Ninja Academy, while Naruto went to Ichiraku Ramen.

• Tianyun Hyuga checked the grove with his Byakugan, spotted an Anbu watcher, and asked Naruto Uzumaki to attack him so he could test his Substitution Technique.
• Naruto Uzumaki kicked Tianyun Hyuga, but the apparent target turned into a piece of wood while Tianyun emerged from behind a tree.
• Tianyun Hyuga tested his enhanced Clone Technique by shifting between clones as Naruto punched them.
• Tianyun Hyuga spent two hours testing the level-two Three Body Technique with Naruto, who exhausted himself without landing a hit.
• Tianyun Hyuga warned Naruto to keep his abilities secret, gave him five thousand for ramen, and headed back toward the Konoha Ninja Academy.
• Naruto Uzumaki accepted Tianyun as his boss and ran to Ichiraku Ramen.

Tianyun Hyuga worried that his limited earnings would delay his goal of reaching jonin strength, while the Third Hokage learned that Tianyun had befriended Naruto Uzumaki and chose to let them spend time together. That evening, Tianyun began teaching Hinata Hyuga the New Gentle Fist Technique, but his impatient manner left her close to tears.

• Tianyun Hyuga calculated that his income from enhancing kunai would take ten months to pay for enhancing his Byakugan, and decided he could not safely increase his output without greater strength.
• The Third Hokage heard that Naruto Uzumaki had sought out Tianyun and paid for their ice cream and ramen, then ordered the Anbu to leave their friendship alone.
• Tianyun returned home to find Meicun Hyuga away training, ate a little food, and waited for Hinata Hyuga to arrive for her lesson.
• Tianyun told the Hyuga Clan guard that Hinata's daily training would last one hour, then brought her inside to practice.
• Tianyun asked Hinata to watch his demonstration and raise her head, but saw tears in her eyes after he scolded her.

Tianyun Hyuga taught Hinata Hyuga the New Gentle Fist Technique, then failed to find a way to make money by enhancing currency. He settled into a daily routine while secretly sending Shadow Clones to practice Ninjutsu.

• Tianyun Hyuga demonstrated Tai Chi Fist, and Hinata Hyuga practiced the movements carefully ten times while he rested.
• Hinata Hyuga finished her training and left after Tianyun Hyuga gave her permission to go home.
• Meicun Hyuga offered Tianyun Hyuga two million, but he said he needed over a billion and refused the money.
• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced a thousand-unit banknote, discovered it became an unusable two-thousand-unit note, and found that enhancing coins cost their face value.
• For the following week, Tianyun Hyuga followed his usual routine and secretly sent four disguised Shadow Clones out each day to practice Ninjutsu.

Tianyun Hyuga’s expensive ninja tools became a sensation in Konoha, prompting the Third Hokage to investigate and arrange for the village to buy them. Tianyun decided to stay in Konoha for a year to build strength and trust before leaving to earn money, but his classmates and Iruka continued to keep their distance.

• Konoha’s clans rushed to buy the effective high-grade ninja tools, while the shop limited sales to ten per day.
• Black Wind told the Third Hokage that he suspected Tianyun Hyuga was connected to the tools and that Tianyun had detected him from a distance.
• The Third Hokage ordered Black Wind to stop watching Tianyun and tell Tiesheng that Konoha would buy all his tools for its strategic reserves at a discount.
• Tianyun resolved to lie low in Konoha for a year, strengthen himself, and earn the trust of the Third Hokage and Hyuga Hiashi before leaving the village.
• Tenten refused to train with Tianyun, and Iruka also rejected his offer to practice the Three Body Technique, so Tianyun headed toward the academy gates.

After nine peaceful months, the Third Hokage ordered Tianyun Hyuga to graduate early, prompting him to rush to the Hokage Office to protest. There, he learned the village leaders were discussing a request from the Fourth Kazekage for Special Weapons, and he realized the meeting could bring him another opportunity to earn money.

• Tianyun Hyuga became famous in Konoha for his New Gentle Fist Technique, his strength, and the Enhanced Weapons he supplied, while Hyuga Hiashi assigned guards to protect him and kept Hinata Hyuga in his care.
• The Third Hokage ordered Tianyun Hyuga to graduate immediately, but Tianyun Hyuga went to the Hokage Office to argue against leaving the Academy so soon.
• Tianyun Hyuga burst into a meeting with the Third Hokage, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura, then stayed when the Third Hokage told him to wait.
• The Third Hokage told the other leaders that the Fourth Kazekage had requested Special Weapons, and Tianyun Hyuga listened closely because he saw a chance to make money.

The Third Hokage persuaded Tianyun Hyuga to make more weapons so Konoha could sell five hundred to Sunagakure. Tianyun accepted a daily payment, then left the Hokage Building without asking why he had to graduate early.

• Shimura Danzō rejected selling weapons to Sunagakure, while Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu proposed selling a small number at a high price.
• The Third Hokage asked Tianyun Hyuga whether Konoha should sell the weapons, and Tianyun sided with Shimura Danzō because he would not earn money from the sale.
• The Third Hokage offered Tianyun five million a day to make twenty weapons daily, and Tianyun agreed.
• The Third Hokage proposed selling five hundred weapons to the Fourth Kazekage, and the advisers agreed before Shimura Danzō left the office.
• Tianyun hurried after Shimura Danzō to avoid Utatane Koharu, then realized he had forgotten to ask why he was graduating early and went home.

Tianyun Hyuga used his savings to enhance his Byakugan and the Three Body Technique, then tested the improvements. He left satisfied with his new survival skills and planned to earn more money to strengthen his body and chakra.

• Tianyun Hyuga considered the danger of graduating early and decided to spend his savings to improve his strength.
• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced his Byakugan for 500 million, removing the flaw caused by the Caged Bird Seal but raising the next enhancement cost to five billion.
• Tianyun Hyuga spent 30 million to enhance the basic Three Body Technique for the third time and tested the results.
• Tianyun Hyuga found that his enhanced clones could fight without dividing his chakra, his Substitution Technique created lifelike decoys, and his Transformation Technique granted some abilities of the forms he took.
• Tianyun Hyuga decided to celebrate over dinner and planned to save money from the Third Hokage and Fourth Kazekage's trade to enhance his body and chakra.

Tianyun Hyuga mooched dinner from Oohiko Akimichi and said he would soon become a Genin after graduating at six. He returned to the mansion to wait for Hinata Hyuga, who continued training with him despite disliking his methods because she kept getting stronger.

• Tianyun Hyuga joined Oohiko Akimichi and his teammates for dinner, ate twenty pieces of grilled meat, and offered to treat them the next day.
• Akio Nara congratulated Tianyun on his upcoming graduation, but Tianyun refused to work with anyone who had less than a hundred million in savings.
• Tianyun left the restaurant to rest before Hinata Hyuga's training session and reflected that he had secretly used her teaching money to strengthen her.
• Hinata arrived at the mansion and found Tianyun asleep; she admired his strength but disliked his constant requests for money, lazy instruction, and adult manner.
• Hinata continued training because she was getting stronger, though she remained puzzled about how Tianyun's lessons were improving her.

Tianyun ended Hinata's daily training and urged her to become more resolute, then told her he would speak with her father. Meanwhile, Hiashi negotiated with the Third Hokage to place Hinata on Tianyun's team, and they agreed Kakashi would protect the pair.

• Tianyun told Hinata she no longer needed to train with him, challenged her to become more resolute, and asked her to tell Hiashi he would visit.
• Tianyun told Meicun Hyuga that he was nearing graduation, and she lectured him about life as a ninja.
• Hiashi asked the Third Hokage to assign Hinata to Tianyun's team, explaining that her training with Tianyun had helped her improve.
• The Third Hokage rejected Hiashi's proposal to have Nisshu protect the children and proposed Kakashi Hatake instead.
• Hiashi agreed to Kakashi's assignment and offered ten Hyuga clan members to Konoha as part of their arrangement.

Tianyun Hyuga was assigned Hinata Hyuga and Kimura Kokomi as teammates and learned that the Hokage had only advanced part of the promised weapon funds. He took two hundred million from Tiesheng and left the weapons to be delivered to his house for gradual refinement.

• The Third Hokage introduced Hinata Hyuga and Kimura Kokomi as Tianyun Hyuga's teammates and ordered them to meet their squad leader at Konoha's main gate the next morning.
• Tianyun Hyuga demanded his money and vanished to Tiesheng's Ninja Tools Shop after the Third Hokage told him to collect it there.
• Hinata Hyuga and Kimura Kokomi left to get acquainted while the Third Hokage worried that Kakashi would struggle to manage Tianyun Hyuga.
• Tiesheng explained that he had received only four hundred million in funds, with the remaining six hundred million dependent on Sunagakure's payment.
• Tiesheng gave Tianyun Hyuga two hundred million, and Tianyun deposited it into the system before arranging for the finished weapons to be delivered to his house.

Hinata Hyuga brought her new teammate, Kimura Kokomi, to Tianyun Hyuga’s home to meet him, and they waited through lunch for his return. Kokomi found both Hinata and Tianyun difficult to deal with and doubted she could complete the mission Shimura Danzō had given her.

• Hinata took Kokomi to her home and told her what she knew about Tianyun before leading her to his residence at lunchtime.
• Hinata and Kokomi met Meicun Hyuga, who welcomed them to lunch while they waited for Tianyun.
• Kokomi found Meicun’s cooking strange but ate quietly beside Hinata.
• Tianyun returned while humming a song, and Meicun told Hinata and Kokomi to wait for him outside because he would soon nap.
• Hinata led Kokomi to wait for Tianyun, while Kokomi worried that she could not get the information Danzō wanted from him.

Tianyun Hyuga asserted control over Hinata Hyuga and Kimura Kokomi before meeting them for dinner ahead of their first mission as a team. The chapter ended with Tianyun leaving the restaurant after Hinata paid the bill.

• Tianyun Hyuga strengthened his body and tested that his physical strength now matched an ordinary Jonin.
• Tianyun ordered Hinata Hyuga and Kimura Kokomi to obey him, and both agreed, though Kimura secretly planned to make trouble for him.
• Kimura left the Hyuga compound intending to investigate Tianyun and learn more about his background.
• Tianyun, Hinata, and Kimura met at the Konoha Barbecue Restaurant, where Tianyun ordered juice and the three ate together.
• Hinata paid the bill, and Tianyun told the two girls he would see them the next morning before hurrying out.

Tianyun Hyuga, Hinata Hyuga, and Kimura Kokomi met their new Squad Leader, Kakashi, and left Konoha for their first mission together. Kakashi assigned them three days of weeding Medicine Mountain, while Tianyun objected to the menial work.

• Tianyun arrived at the village gates and proposed getting breakfast with Hinata and Kimura while they waited for their late Squad Leader.
• Kakashi appeared, introduced himself as their Squad Leader, and led the three genin out of Konoha.
• After traveling through the Land of Fire for several hours, Kakashi stopped near a mountain covered in medicinal herbs.
• Kakashi told the team to weed the herb fields within three days, and Tianyun protested that he expected more exciting missions.
• Kakashi explained that they had to complete twenty D-rank missions before taking C-rank missions and offered two million for clearing the weeds.

Tianyun Hyuga avoided the hard parts of a weeding mission, asked Kakashi to teach him Lightning Blade, and spent the rest of the day eating and sleeping. After a month of D-rank missions, the team took five days off so Tianyun could see his little brother start at the Ninja Academy.

• Tianyun sent a Shadow Clone to weed Medicine Mountain while he rested, then asked Kakashi to teach him Lightning Blade; Kakashi refused and told him to ask Lord Hokage.
• Tianyun went hunting, ate three rabbits, and returned with a boar, which Kimura Kokomi cooked for the team.
• Kakashi led the three genin through a month and six days of dull missions, including their thirteenth D-rank mission.
• Tianyun told Kakashi he wanted five days off to see his little brother start at the Ninja Academy, and Kakashi gave the whole team the same break.
• Hinata followed Tianyun toward the Hyuga Clan, while Kimura Kokomi returned to Root to report.

Tianyun Hyuga visited Naruto Uzumaki and promised to take him to the Ninja Academy, then treated him to dinner. At the barbecue restaurant, Tianyun learned that his classmates had graduated after training in the New Gentle Fist Technique, while Neji Hyuga and Tenten had been assigned to teach new students.

• Tianyun Hyuga visited Naruto Uzumaki and agreed to take him to the Ninja Academy after taking five days off.
• Tianyun Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki headed to the barbecue restaurant, with Tianyun agreeing to pay for the meal.
• Tianyun Hyuga met Daishi Akimichi, Heigui Inuzuka, Jiro Kamata, and Shizuka KImori at the restaurant.
• Daishi Akimichi told Tianyun Hyuga that his classmates had graduated after training in the New Gentle Fist Technique.
• Daishi Akimichi explained that Neji Hyuga and Tenten were staying at the academy and had been assigned to teach new students.

On the first day of school, Tianyun Hyuga waited outside the Konoha Ninja Academy, where he learned Tenten had become a temporary teaching assistant and encountered the new students and Uchiha Itachi. The chapter ended with Sasuke Uchiha angrily entering school after Tianyun told him he was too inexperienced to compare himself to him.

• Tenten told Tianyun Hyuga that her Elite Class had been disbanded and that she and the remaining students had to serve as teaching assistants for a year.
• Tenten grabbed Tianyun Hyuga to avoid welcoming students, but let go after Naruto Uzumaki mistakenly asked if she was going to be his sister-in-law.
• Naruto Uzumaki entered the school, and Tianyun Hyuga stayed at the gates to watch for Uchiha Sasuke.
• Shikaku Nara greeted Tianyun Hyuga as he arrived with Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi; Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame also arrived with their mothers.
• Uchiha Itachi brought Sasuke Uchiha to school, and Sasuke challenged Tianyun Hyuga to a future contest.
• Tianyun Hyuga told Sasuke Uchiha he first had to surpass Uchiha Itachi, prompting the angry Sasuke to storm into the school.

Tianyun Hyuga ate with Naruto Uzumaki, then learned that Hyuga Hiashi had arranged to pay him five million a month to teach Hinata Hyuga. He agreed to give Hinata pointers, but Meicun Hyuga’s lecture about his attitude toward the clan left him uninterested as she finally gave up scolding him.

• Tianyun returned to Naruto at the barbecue restaurant and watched him eat more than twenty plates of meat.
• Tianyun told Naruto to meet him at six in the morning on the day school started, and they went their separate ways.
• Tianyun found Hinata at home with Meicun, who explained that Hiashi had sent five million a month for Tianyun to teach Hinata.
• Tianyun reluctantly agreed to teach Hinata after Meicun revealed she had already accepted the money.
• Meicun escorted Hinata home, then scolded Tianyun for dismissing his duty to help her, but eventually left when she realized he would not share her loyalty to the Hyuga Clan.

After Uchiha Itachi’s genjutsu nearly exposed Tianyun Hyuga’s secrets, Tianyun realized he could enhance ninjutsu used against him and went to Hinata Hyuga to test the ability. His attempt to enhance her Binding Technique failed, leaving him to suspect that the system could not enhance ninjutsu that did not belong to him.

• Uchiha Itachi questioned Tianyun Hyuga, who noticed and called out the genjutsu Itachi had cast on him.
• Uchiha Itachi withdrew the genjutsu, apologized to Tianyun Hyuga, and left; Tianyun realized the system had warned him about it and saw that enhancing his soul would cost one billion.
• Tianyun Hyuga decided to investigate whether he could enhance an enemy’s ninjutsu and returned to the Hyuga Clan grounds to find Hinata Hyuga.
• Tianyun Hyuga asked Hinata Hyuga to take him to a secluded place, and she led him to the Meditation Room.
• Hinata Hyuga cast her Binding Technique on Tianyun Hyuga, but his attempt to enhance it for one hundred thousand yuan failed and the cost was refunded.
• Tianyun Hyuga concluded that the system could not enhance ninjutsu that was not part of him.

Tianyun Hyuga discovered that enhancing an enemy's Genjutsu could make it break on its own, then arranged to refine thousands of Ninja Tools to raise money quickly. He locked himself in the shop's warehouse to begin refining the batch.

• Tianyun Hyuga finished testing Hinata Hyuga's Genjutsu and secretly enhanced one of her Ninjutsu as a reward.
• Tianyun Hyuga visited Tiesheng at Tenten's family Ninja Tools Shop to discuss increasing production and earning more money.
• Tiesheng explained that the warehouse held three thousand ordinary Ninja Tools, which could bring in around two hundred million after refinement.
• Tianyun Hyuga said he would refine all three thousand tools that day and told Tiesheng to obtain high-grade Soldier Pills.
• Tiesheng went to buy Special Soldier Pills from the Akimichi Clan, while Tianyun Hyuga locked himself inside the warehouse.

Tianyun Hyuga finished enhancing the Ninja Tools Shop’s weapons, then waited outside the Ninja Academy to pick up Naruto Uzumaki. After Naruto described clashing with Sasuke Uchiha, the two headed to Ichiraku Ramen to celebrate his first day of school.

• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced roughly three thousand ninja tools, pretended to be exhausted, and told Tiesheng to sell them and deliver the money to his home.
• Tianyun Hyuga ate at Ichiraku Ramen, then waited at the Ninja Academy and noticed that no Uchiha parents had come to collect their children.
• Tianyun Hyuga speculated that the Uchiha Clan massacre was near and considered how he might obtain a pair of Sharingan without confronting the powerful figures behind it.
• Tianyun Hyuga called Naruto Uzumaki over after class, and Naruto said he had made friends but had argued with Sasuke Uchiha.
• Tianyun Hyuga suggested celebrating at Ichiraku Ramen, and Naruto agreed after Tianyun joked that he could pay for a barbecue restaurant.

Tianyun Hyuga realized he could enhance Soldier Pills and sell them for a profit, then prepared a thousand pills for a deal with the Third Hokage. He arrived at the Hokage Building to negotiate while the Third Hokage remained preoccupied with the Uchiha Clan crisis.

• Tianyun Hyuga planned to monitor the Uchiha Clan with Shadow Clones and find a way to obtain Sharingan without attracting the attention of Uchiha Itachi, Obito Uchiha, or Shimura Danzō.
• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced ten Soldier Pills and discovered that one doubled his chakra after he took it.
• Tianyun Hyuga decided to sell enhanced Soldier Pills to the Third Hokage and sent Shadow Clones to buy a thousand Intermediate Soldier Pills from the Nara Clan's shops.
• The Third Hokage handed the Uchiha Clan matter to Shimura Danzō after the clan withdrew its children from Konoha's schools.
• Tianyun Hyuga brought the thousand pills to the Hokage Building and told the Third Hokage he had come to discuss business.

Tianyun Hyuga sold the Third Hokage 999 enhanced soldier pills for 700 million, leaving payment to be arranged in three days. After the Hokage ordered an investigation into the pills, Tianyun left to look for other ways to make money and planned to teach Hinata Hyuga.

• Tianyun Hyuga demonstrated an enhanced soldier pill that increased the Third Hokage’s chakra by a fifth, then haggled with him over its price.
• The Third Hokage agreed to buy 999 soldier pills for 700 million and told Tianyun Hyuga to return for payment in three days.
• The Third Hokage summoned an Anbu ninja to invite the major clan heads to inspect the pills and investigate their source without alerting Tianyun.
• Tianyun Hyuga browsed the Nara Clan’s medicinal herb shop but found nothing worthwhile to enhance.
• Tianyun Hyuga planned to seek higher-ranked missions after getting paid and headed back to the Hyuga Clan to teach Hinata Hyuga.