Recaps

Hyuga Akira fought and killed the Hunter Examiner in the Trick Tower, gaining experience and learning a Fire Release technique. After leaving the tower, he met Hisoka and Illumi, and the third exam ended as Gon and the others emerged at the last moment.

• Hyuga Akira battled the Hunter Examiner with ninjutsu, teleportation, and explosive tags, then killed him with a flaming blade.
• Hyuga Akira gained 2,544 experience and learned Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique from the examiner's dropped item.
• Hyuga Akira left the Trick Tower and waited outside, where Hisoka and Illumi soon joined him.
• Hisoka suggested an interesting fight, but Hyuga Akira declined because he was exhausted.
• Gon and the others emerged from the Trick Tower at the last moment, bringing the third exam to a close.

Hyuga Akira entered the fourth Hunter Exam on Saberu Island, where contestants hunted for Number Plates, and confronted Hanzo after discovering he was Hanzo’s target. Hyuga Akira overwhelmed Hanzo and broke his arm, then prepared to continue the fight because Hanzo’s name reminded him of an enemy from another world.

• Lippo explained that contestants needed six points from their own Number Plate, their target’s plate, and other contestants’ plates to pass the exam.
• The contestants entered Saberu Island at two-minute intervals, and Hyuga Akira went last while scanning the island with his Byakugan.
• Hyuga Akira spotted Hanzo following him and countered Hanzo’s ambush, revealing that he could see through Hanzo’s concealment.
• Hanzo admitted that Hyuga Akira’s Badge was his target, but he gave up and tried to retreat after realizing Hyuga Akira was stronger.
• Hyuga Akira pursued Hanzo through his smoke bomb, broke his arm with a kick, and asked whether he could still fight.
• Hyuga Akira reflected that Hanzo was much weaker than the Hanzo from the Hokage world and realized he was venting his old grudge over the shared name.

Hyuga Akira chose Comprehension as Naufra’s max-level trait, used it to rapidly improve his Taijutsu, and learned that the heightened state drained nearly all his chakra. The next day, he found Leorio and Kurapika on the island and moved toward them.

• Hyuga Akira selected Comprehension rather than Learning or Emotionless for Naufra.
• Hyuga Akira used Naufra to combine Hanzo’s combat techniques with Gentle Fist, raising Gentle Fist and Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and gaining Rotation before his chakra ran low.
• Hyuga Akira drank a Low-Level Magic Power Potion, recovered, and left the unconscious Hanzo behind.
• The next day, Hyuga Akira searched the island with his Byakugan and spotted Leorio and Kurapika.
• Hyuga Akira approached Leorio and Kurapika, and Kurapika noticed him and drew his twin blades.

Hyuga Akira defeated Leorio and Kurapika to take a badge, then passed the fourth round and gave Kurapika his clan’s Scarlet Eyes in exchange for a future favor. After the candidates boarded the airship, Netero interviewed them and announced the format of the final exam.

• Hyuga Akira knocked out Leorio, took his badge, and persuaded Kurapika to give up rather than continue fighting.
• After five days on the island, nine candidates passed the fourth round, including Hyuga Akira, Leorio, Kurapika, Hisoka, Illumi, and Hanzo.
• Kurapika asked Hyuga Akira about his strength, and Hyuga Akira gave him a pair of Scarlet Eyes in return for one future request.
• During his interview, Hyuga Akira told Netero he wanted to become a Hunter to meet undisclosed requirements and admitted he could not beat Hisoka or Illumi.
• Netero announced that the nine candidates would compete in an elimination tournament and explained that each only needed one victory to pass.

Hyuga Akira completed the Hunter Exam, changed his class to Hunter, and fused Nen with his chakra before returning to the Rain Ninja base. He discovered that almost no time had passed in the Naruto world and asked Murakami Hana to let him serve Hanzo.

• Hanzo conceded his match against Gon after sensing Hisoka’s killing intent, then immediately conceded to Hyuga Akira.
• Killua killed someone during the final matches and was disqualified, while the other contestants passed and received their Hunter Licenses.
• Hyuga Akira’s quest completed, and he vanished from the Hunter Exam as Netero watched him leave.
• Hyuga Akira awakened in his room with the Hunter class, a Nen Ability skill, and greatly increased chakra capacity.
• Hyuga Akira left his room and found Murakami Hana, who questioned how he had completed his ninjutsu so quickly after turning down Hanzo.
• Hyuga Akira realized that time had barely passed in the Naruto world while he was in the Hunter World and asked to serve Hanzo.

Hyuga Akira upgraded Kumate and learned that his next mission was to intercept a Konoha squad despite his doubts about the plan. Murakami Hana introduced two Chunin joining them, leaving Akira facing a dangerous mission against one Jonin and three Chunin.

• Murakami Hana reported Hyuga Akira’s mission request to the false Hanzo, who ordered him to target Konoha Ninja and keep Akira under surveillance.
• Hyuga Akira explored the secret base, found no way to gather information, and returned to his room to train.
• Hyuga Akira spent experience to raise Kumate to level five, gaining the strength of five bears while increasing its chakra cost.
• Murakami Hana told Hyuga Akira that they had to intercept one Konoha Jonin and three Chunin, and Akira feared the mission would be disastrous.
• Murakami Hana led Hyuga Akira to the central plaza, where Chunin Ameki and Chunin Yuka were waiting to join them.

Hyuga Akira and his allies ambushed a Konoha team by disguising themselves as merchants and detonating their wagon, then pursued the injured Shinobi after they mistook the attackers for Iwa Ninja. Hyuga Akira discovered the Konoha team had switched roles, with the apparent Jonin possessing only Chunin-level chakra, as the chase continued.

• Hyuga Akira read intelligence identifying a Konoha team led by a Sarutobi Clan Jonin and learned they would meet on the road.
• Hyuga Akira proposed a plan to Murakami Hana, and the group disguised themselves as a merchant caravan to approach the Konoha Shinobi.
• Sarutobi Shōshi's team encountered the caravan and remained wary as the two groups passed each other.
• The wagon exploded, and Hyuga Akira's allies revealed they had used water clones while the injured Konoha Shinobi fled.
• Hyuga Akira and his allies pursued the Konoha team, which they had disguised themselves as Iwa Ninja to deceive.
• Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan and discovered that the apparent Jonin had Chunin-level chakra while another Shinobi had Jonin-level chakra.

Hyuga Akira split from the others, killed a Chunin, then reached Murakami Hana and found Yuka and Ameki badly burned but still alive. Akira secretly killed the two Rain Ninja, pursued their sensory Shinobi, and struck him with fire-imbued Shuriken, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Hyuga Akira pursued and killed a Chunin with his Bronze Blade, then collected a Konoha Forehead Protector.
• Hyuga Akira met Murakami Hana, and they hurried toward the battle where Sarutobi Naoshi had defeated Yuka and Ameki.
• Murakami Hana fought Sarutobi Naoshi while Hyuga Akira pretended to help Yuka and Ameki, then killed both Rain Ninja and collected their drops.
• Hyuga Akira spotted the sensory Shinobi hiding in the bushes and chased him while Sarutobi Naoshi pursued from behind.
• Hyuga Akira tracked the sensory Shinobi through a Genjutsu and used Shuriken: Heavy Firepower: Fireball to pierce his body.

Hyuga Akira killed Sarutobi Shōshi after Murakami Hana weakened him, then collected the Jonin’s experience and item drops. Akira and Murakami returned to the base with Ameki and Yuka’s bodies, where Akira hid his role in their deaths.

• Hyuga Akira killed a Sensor Shinobi with Flying Thunder God and collected the dropped experience.
• Murakami Hana trapped the wounded Sarutobi Shōshi in a swarm of bees, but Shōshi escaped using the Shadow Clone Technique and Transformation Technique.
• Hyuga Akira ambushed the exhausted Sarutobi Shōshi with Fire Release and killed him, earning more than ten thousand experience.
• Hyuga Akira collected the Shadow Clone Technique, Great Flame Technique, and Sarutobi bloodline drops, then told Murakami Hana that he had finished off Shōshi.
• Hyuga Akira and Murakami Hana returned to the base carrying Ameki and Yuka’s bodies, and Murakami honored the dead while Akira concealed his guilt.

Hyuga Akira learned that Shōzō’s forces knew about Hanzo’s network of bases, then spent experience to raise his level and chakra. He tested his Nen affinity with Water Divination, but the result only made the water taste sweet before turning bitter.

• Murakami Hana explained that the base belonged to Amegakure and that the Hanzo they had seen was a double, while the real Hanzo could be at any of several bases.
• Hyuga Akira returned to his room and spent experience to raise his level from 19 to 21, increasing his chakra reserves.
• Hyuga Akira tested his combat techniques and found that Ren consumed his chakra too quickly to sustain for long.
• Hyuga Akira invested experience in the Great Dragon Fire Technique and Unknowing Fire, then fetched a leaf for Water Divination.
• Hyuga Akira poured chakra into the cup during the affinity test, but the water tasted sweet and then bitter.

Hanzo promoted Hyuga Akira, operating under the name Muyu, to Amegakure chunin after Akira described the village as weeping and criticized its failure to protect the Land of Rain. Akira collected his limited equipment and began studying intelligence on other villages, finding that Sunagakure was advancing into the Land of Rain.

• Murakami Hana brought Hyuga Akira to Hanzo, whose chakra reserves appeared comparable to Tsunade's.
• Hanzo promoted Muyu to chunin and asked what he thought of Amegakure.
• Hyuga Akira said Amegakure was weeping because it had failed to protect the Land of Rain from the Three Great Shinobi Villages.
• Hanzo approved of Akira's answer, while criticizing Amegakure's leader, Shōzō, for putting power before the village's purpose.
• Murakami Hana took Hyuga Akira to collect a fixed chunin equipment set and explained the ranks of Amegakure intelligence.
• Hyuga Akira read a C-rank report about Sunagakure's advance into the Land of Rain and stayed in the intelligence room to study.

Hyuga Akira was assigned to guard Hanzo, but chose to remain in Amegakure instead of returning to Konoha. He met Hanzo and surprised him with an irreverent response about his calligraphy, leaving Hanzo questioning whether Akira truly admired him.

• Murakami Hana showed Hyuga Akira the available long-term missions, but an Amegakure Shinobi arrived and announced that Akira had been assigned to guard Hanzo.
• Murakami Hana revealed that Akira was to report to Hanzo the next day, while Hanzo secretly watched Akira and explained that he valued Akira's thinking more than his strength.
• Hyuga Akira received Hiruko's message praising his work and authorizing his return, but decided to stay in Amegakure because it offered more chances to gain experience.
• Hyuga Akira reported to Hanzo, verified his identity with the Byakugan, and examined the character for rain that Hanzo had written.
• When Hanzo asked whether he feared him, Hyuga Akira casually said there was nothing frightening about him, surprising Hanzo.

Hanzo brought Hyuga Akira to Amegakure and confronted his former teacher, Shōzō, over leadership of the village. Shōzō ordered an assassination squad to kill Hanzo, and the chapter ended as the squad followed them into the rain.

• Hanzo invited Hyuga Akira to Amegakure, where the village’s shinobi publicly welcomed him.
• Hyuga Akira sensed a murderous gaze from Shōzō’s building and followed Hanzo to meet the old leader.
• Hanzo told Shōzō that the Land of Rain was suffering and demanded that he step down as leader.
• Shōzō refused to surrender his position, accused Hanzo of endangering Amegakure, and ordered his shinobi to kill him.
• Hanzo left Amegakure with Hyuga Akira, who noticed Shōzō’s assassination squad following them.

Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan-enhanced vision to observe Hanzo battling Shōzō's Assassination Squad, then attacked the Rain Ninja from concealment and drew some of them away from Hanzo. After a final ambush with explosive tags, Akira left the squad caught in the blast as Hanzo continued overwhelming them.

• Hyuga Akira discovered that Gyo let him zoom in and focus within his Byakugan's existing visual range.
• Hanzo fought Shōzō's Assassination Squad, using poison and his Water Body Flicker Technique to kill the Rain Ninja.
• Hyuga Akira approached the battle and killed a poisoned Rain Ninja with Great Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Akira struck again during Hanzo's fight, then concealed himself as several Rain Ninja left Hanzo to search the woods for him.
• Akira killed a kneeling Rain Ninja from behind, revealed himself, and vanished after placing explosive tags where he had stood.
• The Rain Ninja charged into the explosive tags, and they detonated.

Hyuga Akira collected a large haul of item drops after helping Hanzo defeat Shōzō’s Special Jōnin, then discussed how Hanzo could secure Amegakure’s finances and weaken Shōzō. The chapter ended with Akira suggesting that Hanzo frighten the nobles by staging attacks on their property.

• Hanzo killed several Special Jōnin, and Hyuga Akira finished off two who could no longer resist, earning more experience.
• Hanzo refused to let Hyuga Akira search the battlefield, but allowed him to arrange the twenty-five bodies; Akira secretly collected twelve dropped items.
• As they traveled through the forest, Hanzo explained that Shōzō’s Conservative Faction held only one-fifth of Amegakure’s strength, while the nobles of the Land of Rain supported him financially.
• Hyuga Akira proposed that Shōzō had united the nobles through profit or threats, then advised Hanzo to win over some nobles and replace or eliminate others to take control of the village’s finances.
• When Hanzo asked how to deal with nobles who resisted, Hyuga Akira advised him to threaten them by having people pose as wandering ninja and seize the property of a few nobles.

Hyuga Akira examined the items dropped by his enemies, then used Naufra to study his techniques before spending experience to max out the Clone Technique. The chapter ended with him waiting to choose its max-level trait.

• Hanzo accepted Hyuga Akira’s suggestion for dealing with Shōzō and sent him away after they returned to base.
• Hyuga Akira inspected twelve drops, including Nen equipment, recovery items, and fragments, and dismissed Skill Hunter as useless for now.
• Hyuga Akira activated Naufra to analyze Gentle Fist and Kumate, but only Rotation gained two levels.
• Hyuga Akira decided to spend experience on the Clone Technique and raised it to level ten, where its trait awaited selection.

Hyuga Akira strengthened his Clone Technique and Nen abilities, shaping them into a long-range sniping style. After asking Hanzo for a mission, he received a target to assassinate.

• Hyuga Akira chose the Clone Technique’s Phantom trait and discovered it let his attacks produce a powerful, chakra-consuming phantom strike.
• Hyuga Akira invested experience in Nen Ability, Kumate, and the Byakugan, developing a method to enhance and launch attacks at targets from several kilometers away.
• Hyuga Akira asked Hanzo to send him on missions instead of keeping him at the base as an advisor.
• Hanzo assigned Hyuga Akira to kill Yamada Nakaken, a noble protected by three Chunin.

Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan and an overclocking technique to master long-range Shuriken throwing and ambushed Yamada Nakaken’s escort. He killed two Shinobi, while the remaining two fled into the woods as Akira prepared to pursue them.

• Hyuga Akira read that Yamada Nakaken would travel along a main road and waited on a nearby mountain to intercept him.
• Hanzo prepared to begin taking control of the nobles’ power, saying he still needed a blade.
• Xueyu spotted Akira’s first Shuriken strike a rock and alerted the escort to an enemy attack.
• Hyuga Akira activated Naufra and combined several techniques to hurl a Shuriken through the carriage, killing Yamada Nakaken.
• Akira killed another Shinobi with a second long-range Shuriken, while Xueyu and the last companion fled into the woods.
• Hyuga Akira used his Byakugan to target the fleeing Shinobi through the trees, but his next Shuriken missed and struck the ground.

Hyuga Akira completed his mission, collected item drops, and answered Hanzo’s summons to Amegakure, where war was about to break out. Hanzo asked him to help seize the village by killing Shōzō, and the chapter ended as Hanzo led him toward the guarded building with his forces assembled.

• Hyuga Akira killed three fleeing shinobi with long-range Shuriken and collected experience and item drops.
• Hyuga Akira found Hanzo’s summons and traveled to Amegakure, where Murakami Hana led him to Hanzo.
• Hanzo told Hyuga Akira that the Three Great Shinobi Villages were entering Amegakure and that he intended to take control before war began.
• Hanzo asked Hyuga Akira to kill Shōzō, explaining that his forces would help him reach the leader of the Conservative Faction.
• Hanzo gathered his fighters outside the building where Shōzō and his men were holed up, then signaled them to move.

Hyuga Akira followed Hanzo through Amegakure during the civil war, collecting experience and item drops while Hanzo fought his way toward Shōzō. Hanzo reached Shōzō’s quarters only to find him gone, while Ku Ming stepped in to face the guard Taira.

• Hyuga Akira entered the building with Hanzo and killed an attacker with a fireball, gaining experience.
• Hyuga Akira protected Hanzo on the stairs with volleys of fireballs and picked up a Nen Recovery Potion and an Exorcist Skill Fragment.
• Hanzo confronted Harubi at the fourth-floor entrance and declared that Shōzō was the traitor for abandoning the Land of Rain.
• Hanzo’s men cleared a path through the fighting, and Hanzo and Hyuga Akira continued to the fifth floor.
• Hanzo found Shōzō missing from his quarters, and Taira challenged him before Ku Ming intercepted Taira.

Hyuga Akira killed Shōzō on Hanzo’s orders and discovered that Hanzo had set him up to make Konoha bear the blame for Amegakure’s leader’s death. Hanzo exposed Akira’s disguise, but Akira escaped as Taira pursued him to avenge Shōzō.

• Hanzo led Hyuga Akira to an abandoned factory outside Amegakure, where Shōzō waited and recalled Hanzo’s childhood experiments.
• Hanzo ordered Hyuga Akira to kill Shōzō, and Akira’s shuriken passed through the old man, killing him and earning Akira 50,000 experience.
• Hanzo attacked Akira, then revealed that he had recognized him as a Konoha shinobi disguised as an Uchiha.
• Hyuga Akira realized Hanzo had used Shōzō’s death to shift blame to Konoha, then identified himself as Uchiha Akira and threatened Hanzo.
• Taira arrived to avenge Shōzō, and Hyuga Akira vanished; Hanzo suspected he had used the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Taira pursued Akira while Ku Ming worried that Akira might expose Hanzo, but Hanzo said no one would believe an enemy shinobi.

Hyuga Akira escaped Taira’s pursuit by using a copied Return G-380 card to travel to the cave where he had taught Nagato. Refusing to return to Konoha defeated, he prepared Explosive Tag traps to fight Taira again.

• Hyuga Akira used Shadow Clones, Shuriken, and the Substitution Technique to evade Taira, but Taira tracked him down and attacked with Water Release.
• Taira identified Hyuga Akira as a member of the Hyuga Main Family and fought him at close range, but Hyuga Akira used the force of Taira’s kick to escape.
• Hyuga Akira activated a copied Return G-380 card and flew from the pursuit to the cave near Konoha where he had taught Nagato.
• Hyuga Akira found the cave unoccupied, left to choose a suitable location, and began laying traps with more than thirty Explosive Tags.

Hyuga Akira lured Taira into a sealed underground chamber and used Indoor Fish to keep them both alive despite their catastrophic injuries. Taira remained trapped with Akira, who claimed he would stay that way forever.

• Hyuga Akira ambushed Taira with a Fūma Shuriken, traps, and explosive tags, but Taira used water techniques to evade the attacks and countered through the mist.
• Taira sliced off Hyuga Akira's arm, and Akira grabbed Taira's leg before detonating the explosive tags on his own body.
• The blast collapsed the ground and sent both ninja into Akira's prepared underground chamber, where he detonated all his remaining explosive tags beneath Taira.
• Indoor Fish appeared in the sealed chamber and prevented both badly injured men from dying or feeling pain.
• Hyuga Akira explained Indoor Fish's effect to Taira and told him he would remain trapped in that condition.

Hyuga Akira tortured Taira for information until an unseen attacker destroyed the Nen fish and killed Taira, revealing Black Zetsu’s involvement. Akira returned to the city and found it burning and Nagato’s home in ruins, then encountered two wary Konoha Ninja.

• Hyuga Akira restored his severed arm and threatened Taira to learn how he had tracked him.
• After enduring prolonged torture, Taira agreed to talk, but sharp objects destroyed the Nen fish and killed him before he could reveal anything.
• Hyuga Akira blocked the attacker’s strike, found wood splinters, and concluded Black Zetsu had targeted him and used a White Zetsu to track him.
• Hyuga Akira hurried to the city and found it burning, Nagato’s home reduced to rubble, and several Konoha Ninja dead, but no sign of Nagato’s family.
• Two Konoha Ninja approached Hyuga Akira and questioned his presence as they eyed him warily.

Hyuga Akira returned to Konoha’s frontline camp and learned that the war had broken out early, with Amegakure fighting the three great nations and his actions credited as both a contribution and a source of trouble for the Uchiha. While his return to Konoha awaited approval, he spent much of his experience leveling Kumate to its maximum level and faced a choice of new traits.

• Inuzuka Kiba and Konoha Shikaku escorted Hyuga Akira to the camp and told him that Amegakure had declared war on Konoha, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure.
• Konoha Shikaku explained that Hanzo had blamed an invented Uchiha, Uchiha Akira, for Shōzō’s death, causing suspicion toward the Uchiha Clan even as Hyuga Akira’s actions helped Konoha.
• Konoha Shikaku verified Hyuga Akira’s identity but said he could not return to Konoha or leave the camp without approval from the commander, Danzō.
• Hyuga Akira learned that his mission and its rewards were still under review, so he stayed in the restricted frontline camp.
• Hyuga Akira checked his experience pool and spent 44,800 points to raise Kumate to level ten.
• Hyuga Akira examined Kumate’s three available traits: Summon Bear, Bear Transformation, and Bear Paw.