Recaps

Hyuga Hiashi attacked Hyuga Akira and activated the Caged Bird Seal, but Akira endured the pain and threatened him with a blade. Tsunade intervened, reprimanded them, and ordered both confined after declaring their squad would disband following its handover.

• Hyuga Akira reached the Konoha military camp near the Land of Rain and used his Byakugan to scout it while waiting for Tsunade and the Hyuga brothers.
• Hyuga Hiashi attacked Akira, but Akira knocked him back with Bear Grappling Fist and used experience to upgrade Naufra.
• Hyuga Hiashi activated the Caged Bird Seal, but Akira endured its pain, threatened him at knifepoint, and dared him to destroy his eyes and brain before Akira killed him.
• Tsunade broke up their confrontation, backed Akira, and warned Hiashi that she would report his actions to his father.
• Tsunade ordered the squad to disband after the handover and sent both Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Akira to confinement in the camp prison.

Hyuga Akira sought a year in custody to find a way to remove his Caged Bird Seal, but Hiruko soon arrived and became his Jonin instructor. After Akira learned his team had been the supply transport rather than bait, Konoha’s commanders discussed infiltrating Amegakure to obtain timely intelligence on Iwagakure and Sunagakure.

• Hyuga Akira asked Tsunade to let him remain in the cell for a year, while Tsunade warned him not to become a rogue ninja.
• Hyuga Akira refused to explain his plans to Hyuga Hiashi and considered how to adapt his tactics to the [Cheap Shot] skill.
• Hiruko arrived and introduced himself as Hyuga Akira’s Jonin instructor, then took Akira and the Sealing Scroll to the command tent.
• Hyuga Akira asked whether his team had been transport or bait, and Hiruko explained that Orochimaru and Jiraiya’s teams had served as bait.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru discussed obtaining intelligence from Amegakure, and Orochimaru proposed sending an undercover agent there.

Hyuga Akira was chosen to infiltrate Amegakure and gather peripheral intelligence, despite his objections. After taking a large cache of ninja tools from the supply tent, he learned the Summoning Technique from Hiruko and waited for help establishing his identity before entering the Land of Rain.

• Orochimaru proposed sending a spy to Amegakure, and Tsunade and the others selected Hyuga Akira for the mission.
• Hiruko let Hyuga Akira take ninja tools from the supply tent, then stopped him after his Ninja Tool Pouch swallowed a huge amount of supplies.
• Hiruko gave Hyuga Akira a Summoning Technique scroll and taught him the technique so he could send intelligence back to Konoha.
• Hiruko chased Hyuga Akira from camp, then returned to help arrange his identity before he entered the Land of Rain.

Hyuga Akira went undercover in Amegakure by taking the place of the Rain Ninja Muyu, then pretended to have amnesia when he met his superior, Kusen. The chapter ended with Akira overpowering Kusen after Kusen tested him with an attack.

• Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan to locate two Amegakure genin watching the city entrance, and Hiruko and Akira captured Muyu and learned his identity and mission.
• Hiruko ordered Hyuga Akira to replace Muyu and gather intelligence for Konoha.
• Hyuga Akira killed Muyu, took his appearance, and detonated an Explosive Tag to stage an attack by a Konoha ninja before Hiruko escaped.
• Hyuga Akira woke up in Amegakure and told Kusen, his superior, that he was Musen and had lost his memory.
• Kusen attacked Hyuga Akira with shuriken and a knee strike, but Akira dodged, kicked Kusen into a wall, and beat him with repeated punches.

Hyuga Akira maintained his act of having amnesia and erratic behavior, convincing Kusen and the Amegakure ninja that he was Muyu. After being released from restraints and assigned intelligence work, he clashed with his coworker Shisui, who accused him of using his memory loss as an excuse to avoid work.

• Kusen accepted the medical explanation for Muyu's memory loss, lack of pain, and violent behavior after Hyuga Akira staged a fight.
• Kusen told Hyuga Akira that he served Hanzo and explained that Shōzō currently controlled Amegakure and ordered its ninja to avoid conflicts.
• Kusen freed Hyuga Akira and brought him back to duty after Hyuga Akira promised loyalty to Hanzo.
• Hyuga Akira joined Kusen's intelligence team and said he would rather kill strong enemies than learn ninjutsu.
• Hyuga Akira sat polishing a bronze-colored blade instead of organizing intelligence, and Shisui confronted him for pretending that amnesia excused his inaction.

Hyuga Akira killed Shisui, continued his undercover work in Amegakure, and accepted a mission to assassinate Kojima Kōji. He then hunted Wandering Ninja for experience and encountered the frightened young Nagato.

• Hyuga Akira killed Shisui, summoned his body to Hiruko’s camp, and took the Low-Level Magic Potion he dropped.
• Kusen warned Hyuga Akira not to kill comrades and gave him a mission to assassinate Kojima Kōji, along with a Water Release: Wild Water Wave scroll.
• Hyuga Akira learned that Kojima Kōji was protected by a Chunin and several Genin, agreed to attempt the assassination, and left to hunt Wandering Ninja for experience.
• Hyuga Akira broke into a house where Wandering Ninja had killed a family and killed the eight occupants with shuriken, gaining experience and a Special Kunai.
• Hyuga Akira sensed a large chakra presence behind a tree, confronted a red-haired boy, and recognized him as Nagato.

Hyuga Akira urged Kusen to commit fully to Hanzo’s side and joined him on a mission at the city lord’s residence. While Kusen went to carry out the assassination, Akira drew the guards’ attention by slaughtering them with shuriken.

• Hyuga Akira wiped out most of the wandering ninja in the city and collected EXP, potions, money, and a Lightning Release skill book.
• Kusen confronted Hyuga Akira after Shōzō learned of the killings and planned to send someone to replace him.
• Hyuga Akira persuaded Kusen to support Hanzo decisively and complete his mission before dealing with the replacement.
• Kusen and Hyuga Akira went to the city lord’s residence at night, where Kusen planned to distract the guards while Akira assassinated the target.
• Hyuga Akira jumped among the guards and unleashed a barrage of shuriken, drawing their attention as Kusen vanished in a puddle of water to carry out the assassination.

Hyuga Akira killed the Rain Ninja attackers at the mansion and obtained an Exorcist Skill Fragment, which could eventually remove the Caged Bird Seal. He then wiped out the soldiers guarding his mission target and collected a Rose, while Kusen remained locked in battle with a Chunin.

• Hyuga Akira used Shuriken and Explosive Tags to defeat the Rain Ninja, then killed their older Shinobi leader and obtained an Exorcist Skill Fragment.
• Hyuga Akira saw Kusen fighting a Chunin and rushed toward the group fleeing through the mansion’s back gate.
• Hyuga Akira killed the armored soldiers guarding the noble who was his mission target.
• Hyuga Akira collected the noble’s Rose and wondered whether he could still obtain Cozy Home.

Hyuga Akira killed Shuaiyu during his fight with Kusen, then chose not to kill the poisoned Kusen so he could preserve his undercover work. After they confirmed Kojima Kōji's death and returned to the tower, Akira stored Shuaiyu's unusable Nen Stitching skill drop.

• Hyuga Akira ambushed Shuaiyu with a timed explosive tag and finished him with shuriken after the blast left him alive.
• Hyuga Akira collected Shuaiyu's Nen Stitching skill drop and considered killing the poisoned Kusen, but put away his shuriken to protect his undercover mission.
• Kusen took a detoxification pill, questioned Akira about the explosion, and ordered him to walk ahead while they checked Kojima Kōji's body.
• Kusen and Akira found a surviving person, then left through the back door and returned to the tower after confirming the target's death.
• Kusen went to his room, and Hyuga Akira returned to his own.

Hyuga Akira chose the Mass trait for his max-level Transformation Technique and tested its ability to turn him into water, only to exhaust his chakra. After recovering and disguising himself as Muyu, he made Kusen include his contribution in the mission report before Kusen sent it to Hanzo.

• Hyuga Akira spent experience to raise Transformation Technique to its maximum level and chose the Mass trait over Authenticity and Simulation.
• Hyuga Akira transformed into water, discovered he could pass his hand through his body, and collapsed after the technique drained his chakra.
• Hyuga Akira drank a Low-Level Magic Potion, recovered, and changed back into Muyu with a more convincing transformation.
• Hyuga Akira confronted Kusen over leaving him out of the mission report and watched as Kusen added his contribution.
• Kusen sent the completed report to Hanzo using a Summoning Scroll while Hyuga Akira observed his technique.

Hyuga Akira and Kusen prepared to intercept the replacement squad assigned to the city, while Akira continued training and handling Rain intelligence. The chapter left them concealed in a mountain forest as Akira laid traps before the squad arrived.

• Hyuga Akira unnerved Kusen by appearing at his doorway with a Bronze Blade, prompting Kusen to move to one of his safe houses.
• The next day, Akira trained while Kusen told him that a Chunin and three Genin would arrive to take over the assignment.
• Akira reviewed the Rain intelligence, sent a report back to Hiruko, and burned Hiruko’s scolding letter.
• Before dawn, Kusen led Akira into a mountain forest to ambush the replacement squad using information from Lord Hanzo.
• Akira ignored Kusen’s questions about the squad’s arrival time and began setting shuriken-wire traps and Explosive Tags across the trees.

Hyuga Akira and Kusen ambushed Akishima’s group of Rain Ninja, turning a factional handover into a fight. Akira killed the captured boy and watched from hiding as Kusen faced Akishima’s Waterfall Clone Technique.

• Akishima led the Rain Ninja group toward the handover and told the boy traveling with him that he expected no fight.
• Akishima’s group triggered Akira’s traps; after one Genin was caught and an explosion went off, Kusen attacked Akishima with Water Release.
• Akishima tried to reason with Kusen, but Kusen declared his loyalty to Hanzo and attacked with Wild Water Wave and Rain Shower Senbon.
• Akira captured the boy, explained the factional conflict, and killed him after he thrust himself toward Akira’s kunai.
• Akishima and Kusen continued fighting, and Akishima used the Waterfall Clone Technique to surround Kusen with apparent copies.

Kusen defeated Akishima with the help of Hyuga Akira’s traps, but after the battle Akira revealed that he intended to kill Kusen too. The chapter ended with Kusen realizing the flames spreading through the trap wires were part of Akira’s attack.

• Kusen fought Akishima’s Waterfall Clone Technique until he lured Akishima into Hyuga Akira’s traps and injured him with explosive tags.
• Kusen charged Akishima while avoiding the traps, but Akishima used a clone to escape the trapped area.
• Hyuga Akira intercepted Akishima in a tree and struck him with the Gentle Fist: Mountain-Breaking Strike, sending him into wires and explosive tags that killed him.
• Kusen asked about the other enemies, and Hyuga Akira told him they were all dead and that only the two of them remained.
• Hyuga Akira ignited the wires around them, and Kusen realized Akira planned to kill him.

Hyuga Akira killed Kusen after revealing his Gentle Fist, then collected the drops from Kusen and the other dead ninja. He reached level 16 and, having exhausted the area’s available targets, faced a choice between protecting his standing with Konoha and finding new sources of experience and ninjutsu.

• Hyuga Akira explained that Kusen had outlived his usefulness and challenged the weakened Chunin to test his own strength.
• Kusen attacked with Water Release, but Hyuga Akira defeated him with his flame-enhanced Eight Trigrams technique, killing him in twenty-three palm strikes.
• Hyuga Akira collected an Exorcist Skill Fragment from Kusen and a Nanika’s Wish List Fragment from Akishima, then picked up three cards dropped by the Genin.
• Hyuga Akira spent 3,999 experience to reach level 16, leaving 569 experience in his pool.
• Hyuga Akira realized he had exhausted the city’s available targets and worried that killing hidden Konoha ninja would ruin his reputation with Konoha.

Hyuga Akira covered up Kusen’s death, reported the mission to Hanzo under the name Muyu, and secured an invitation to meet him. When a Rain Ninja asked where Kusen was, Akira said he had died on a mission.

• Hyuga Akira destroyed Kusen’s charred corpse with an explosive tag and took his belongings.
• Hyuga Akira wrote Hanzo a report crediting Muyu with leading the ambush, while claiming Kusen had died using explosive tags against Akishima.
• Hyuga Akira sent the report through Kusen’s Summoning Scroll after finding little money and equipment in Kusen’s pouch.
• Hanzo read the letter, recognized Muyu’s ambition, and ordered a Rain Ninja to summon him for a meeting.
• A Rain Ninja returned to report and asked Hyuga Akira where Kusen was; Akira said Kusen had died on a mission, and the ninja handed over the day’s intelligence report.

Hyuga Akira killed a Rain Ninja to establish himself as a bloodthirsty, unpredictable subordinate, while the remaining Rain Ninja began plotting to assassinate him. He later met Nagato, accepted a lunch box from him, and brought him to the High Tower to eat together.

• Hyuga Akira killed a Rain Ninja for stepping through the doorway with his left foot first, then intimidated a female shinobi and sent the others away.
• Hyuga Akira watched the genin leave and decided his violent behavior would shape the impression Hanzo formed of him.
• The Rain Ninja gathered after work and agreed to kill Hyuga Akira using poison, assassination, or traps.
• Hyuga Akira walked through the rainy city and met Nagato, who brought him a lunch box made by his mother.
• Hyuga Akira invited Nagato to eat with him and led him to the High Tower, which Nagato said was the city's most famous building.

Hyuga Akira took Nagato as his student and began training him, but his uneasy wait for Hanzo ended when his subordinates ambushed him in the tower. The chapter left Hyuga Akira facing the attackers after they declared that they had decided he must die.

• Nagato brought Hyuga Akira lunch and called him a good person for avenging Aunt Shuna, while Hyuga Akira insisted he had acted for his own benefit.
• Hyuga Akira offered to train Nagato, described ninja as tools used by powerful elites, and persuaded Nagato to learn how to protect his family.
• Hyuga Akira took Nagato to a cave outside the city and began teaching him the chakra extraction technique after testing his physical fitness.
• Hyuga Akira continued training Nagato while waiting for news from Hanzo, but no response arrived.
• Hyuga Akira was attacked in his office by subordinates using Water Release: Water Shuriken, and he deflected the attack with his Bronze Battle Blade.
• The flaxen-haired kunoichi told Hyuga Akira that his existence threatened their survival and that he must die.

Hyuga Akira defeated most of Kusen's remaining subordinates before Murakami Hana, a Jonin sent by Hanzo, arrived and broke Akira's arm. After Murakami's companion tried to bully him, Akira fought back and landed a powerful kick to the man's face.

• Hyuga Akira revealed that he had never drunk the poisoned tea and killed several of Kusen's subordinates, while two escaped through the window.
• Hyuga Akira searched the fallen enemies and found a Scarlet Eyes item and another item he could not use yet.
• Murakami Hana arrived with a severed head, identified himself as an Amegakure Jonin, and broke Hyuga Akira's arm to teach him to respect stronger people.
• A masked, overweight subordinate approached Hyuga Akira after Murakami allowed him to handle the newcomer.
• Hyuga Akira dodged the man's attack, cut through his Kunai, and kicked him in the face, shattering his respirator.

Hyuga Akira was ordered to leave for a meeting with Hanzo after Murakami Hana stopped him from killing the fat ninja, and he left Nagato with harsh advice before departing. Nagato refused to leave his family, so Akira warned him to prepare for the risks of becoming a ninja.

• Murakami Hana stopped Hyuga Akira from attacking the fat ninja and told him he would meet Hanzo after handing over his duties.
• Hyuga Akira learned he would leave in two days, then dismissed the handover work and went back to sleep.
• Murakami Hana rejected the fat ninja's suspicion that Muyu had killed Kusen and privately judged Muyu talented enough to perhaps become a Jonin.
• Hyuga Akira visited Nagato and invited him to come along, but Nagato refused because he wanted to stay with his family.
• Hyuga Akira advised Nagato to use any means necessary against Wandering Ninja, then told him that a Chakra User must be ready to kill and be killed.

Hyuga Akira taught Nagato to see himself as a Chakra User rather than a Shinobi, then faced an attack by a fat Chunin and two Genin. Murakami Hana arrived in time to save the Chunin, leaving Akira with two kills and an experience drop from the wounded man.

• Hyuga Akira advised Nagato to forge his own path as a Chakra User, then trained him through the day until Nagato sensed someone approaching.
• Hyuga Akira recognized the fat Chunin and two Genin, sent Nagato deeper into the cave, and prepared to fight before Murakami Hana arrived.
• The fat Chunin used a poison-based genjutsu with his companions, confusing Hyuga Akira's senses and injuring him.
• Hyuga Akira used an Explosive Tag to escape the genjutsu, took a Detoxification Pill, and attacked the three Shinobi as the explosion left them down.
• Murakami Hana blocked the attack on the fat Chunin, but Hyuga Akira killed the two Genin and kicked the wounded Chunin to gain experience.

Hyuga Akira used the deaths of two shinobi to warn Nagato about the dangers ahead, then reached level eighteen and unlocked the class change system. He considered the available classes and looked over two paid options, including Soul Reaper, before making his choice.

• Hyuga Akira showed Nagato the two dead shinobi and told him he would need to be ready to kill to survive.
• Hyuga Akira gained levels, reached level eighteen, and unlocked the class change function.
• Hyuga Akira reviewed the Pirate and Shinobi classes, rejecting Shinobi because his abilities already overlapped with it.
• Hyuga Akira focused on Hunter as his preferred class and explained how paid classes and dual classes worked.
• Hyuga Akira examined the two unavailable paid classes, including Soul Reaper.

Hyuga Akira chose the Hunter class, but its Class Change quest required him to complete the Hunter Exam within a month, leaving him unsure whether it would send him to another world. He postponed the quest to meet Hanzo first, and Murakami Hana led him by a concealed route to Hanzo’s hiding place.

• Hyuga Akira selected Hunter and received a quest to complete the Hunter Exam within one month, but he could not find out where or how to take it.
• Hyuga Akira decided to delay accepting the exam prompt until after meeting Hanzo, then went with Murakami Hana the next morning.
• Before leaving, Hyuga Akira threatened the bandaged fat ninja to discourage him from harming Nagato.
• Murakami Hana led Hyuga Akira along a winding forest route for five days while Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan to memorize it.
• Murakami Hana covered Hyuga Akira’s eyes and guided him through more loops to a concealed door beside a cave.

Hyuga Akira met a double of Hanzo, negotiated a month to train, and then used the Hunter Exam mission to enter another world. At the exam plaza, he knocked out Tonpa and gained experience, drawing the attention of the other examinees.

• Hyuga Akira noticed that the Hanzo he met had only Chunin-level chakra and realized he was a double.
• Hyuga Akira convinced the double to give him a month to practice a ninjutsu before taking a mission, while the real Hanzo watched from the shadows.
• Murakami Hana arranged a sealed room for Hyuga Akira, who found no surveillance and decided to begin the Hunter Exam.
• Hyuga Akira accepted the mission and found himself in an underground plaza in another world, already wearing an exam badge.
• Tonpa approached Hyuga Akira, who slammed him into the ground and gained 15 experience, attracting wary looks from the other examinees.

Hyuga Akira entered the Hunter Exam alongside Gon, Kurapika, Leorio, Killua, and other applicants, drawing Hisoka’s interest with his unfamiliar abilities. After passing the first exam and surviving a chaotic cooking test, he began the restarted second round by descending a canyon to collect Spider Eggs, attracting Netero’s attention.

• Hyuga Akira spotted Gon, Kurapika, Leorio, and Killua among the applicants before the examiner began the Hunter Exam.
• As the applicants ran through a tunnel, Hisoka confronted Hyuga Akira, who deflected Hisoka’s Nen-infused playing card with shuriken.
• Hyuga Akira killed an impostor claiming to be the examiner, then followed the real examiner through Swindlers’ Swamp as many applicants fell behind.
• Hyuga Akira and the other survivors passed the first round, then completed the roast-boar cooking task before the female examiner’s sushi test caused everyone to fail.
• After Netero restarted the exam with a Spider Egg gathering task, Hyuga Akira walked down the canyon wall to collect eggs, and Netero used Gyo to examine the chakra around his feet.

Hyuga Akira drew Netero’s suspicion over his unfamiliar power but persuaded him to let the Hunter Exam continue. At Trick Tower, Akira entered a passage with Hisoka and Illumi, then found himself face-to-face with a scarred man who had been expecting Hisoka.

• After the second exam, Hisoka and Illumi visited Hyuga Akira to ask about the next round, but he sent them away.
• Netero questioned Akira about his power and possible ties to the Dark Continent, then suggested granting him a Hunter License; Akira insisted on taking the exam.
• At Trick Tower, Akira used his Byakugan to find a route into a room requiring three candidates, where Hisoka and Illumi joined him.
• The three candidates opened the door together, then chose separate passages; Akira took the middle passage while Hisoka went left and Illumi went right.
• Akira descended the middle passage and encountered a scarred man who had been waiting for Hisoka; the man decided to fight Akira instead.