Recaps

Hyuga Akira ambushed Ōnoki’s retreating Iwa Ninja with long-range flame attacks, then collected the drops from the battle. His haul completed his Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and Giant Dragon Set, and he ended the chapter considering how to spend his experience on genjutsu.

• Ōnoki hurled a massive platform at Hyuga Akira, destroyed the mountaintop, and ordered the Iwa Ninja to retreat rather than pursue him.
• Hyuga Akira returned under the cover of dust and attacked the withdrawing Iwa Ninja with flaming spears, killing several Jonin and their nearby comrades.
• Ōnoki raised a stone giant to block the attacks and hurried his troops out of Hyuga Akira’s range.
• Hyuga Akira returned to Bibu Mountain and used the Furnace to melt unwanted drops, gaining essence and collecting the pieces of the Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and Giant Dragon Set.
• Hyuga Akira equipped the Giant Dragon Set, assessed his increased strength, and checked his experience before turning his attention to his genjutsu skill.

Hyuga Akira upgraded his genjutsu to prepare his incarnation to travel through the Shinobi World without being linked to him. After spending much of his experience, he had maxed out Mirror Heaven and Earth Change, while Tree Binding Death and further upgrades remained.

• Hyuga Akira decided to give his incarnation different skills and began upgrading his genjutsu.
• He maxed out four D-rank genjutsu and selected traits including Erasure, Dazzling, World, and Pain.
• Hyuga Akira maxed out four C-rank genjutsu and chose Fox Demon Contract, Complete Hypnosis, Disorientation, and Materialization as their traits.
• He spent 128,000 experience to max out Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change, leaving Tree Binding Death still to upgrade.

Hyuga Akira chose Reflection, tested his powerful genjutsu with his rebellious clone, and returned the unconscious Sannin to Konoha. After learning the war was nearly over, he traveled to the devastated Land of Rain to investigate Nagato's situation, where a young shinobi confronted him.

• Hyuga Akira selected Reflection and created an External Body Clone, whose genjutsu repeatedly trapped him until the clone used another clone to break the illusion.
• The clone's attacks destroyed a repaired training ground and left the Konoha Sannin unconscious in cat-claw-shaped craters.
• Hyuga Akira reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who questioned his supposed kekkei genkai and said the war was about to end.
• Hyuga Akira realized Jiraiya had stayed with the Sannin on the front lines instead of teaching Nagato and the others, then went to the Land of Rain to check on Nagato.
• Hyuga Akira surveyed the ruined, impoverished city, and a young shinobi pointed an iron rod at him and ordered him to leave.

Hyuga Akira found Nagato’s orphan community and revealed himself as Nagato’s former teacher, Muyu, after using genjutsu to reach their base. He stayed with the group and offered to train them, while secretly intending to confront Madara Uchiha.

• Hyuga Akira used genjutsu to make Takuji lead him to Nagato’s base while disguised as an older Yahiko.
• After the real Yahiko appeared, Hyuga Akira released Takuji from the genjutsu and asked the group for Nagato.
• Nagato doubted Hyuga Akira’s identity until he revealed Muyu’s face and recalled details from their past.
• Hyuga Akira recognized Nagato’s Rinnegan and explained that his own eyes were the Byakugan, easing Nagato’s suspicion.
• Nagato introduced Hyuga Akira as Muyu, and the group welcomed him as their teacher.
• Hyuga Akira accepted a room in the village and offered to instruct the children.

Hyuga Akira taught Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to awaken and control chakra nen, then began testing their chakra affinities. The three succeeded in becoming Chakra Users and were left to learn what their new power could do.

• Nagato told Hyuga Akira how his parents died during the fighting between Konoha and Amegakure, and Yahiko explained how he and Konan had built a community with him.
• Hyuga Akira accepted Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan as students and offered to awaken their chakra nen, warning that they might die.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan each touched one of Hyuga Akira's blue spheres, causing powerful chakra to erupt from their bodies.
• Yahiko and Konan controlled their chakra nen first, and Nagato eventually stabilized his despite his enormous chakra reserves.
• Hyuga Akira declared that all three had become Chakra Users and prepared a water-and-leaf test to check their affinities.

Hyuga Akira’s Incarnation taught Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan the Nen categories and fundamentals, while the original Hyuga Akira grew frustrated that his clone was teaching instead of gaining experience. As the students began practicing and Yahiko celebrated his victory over Nagato, the Incarnation challenged him to fight.

• Hyuga Akira’s Incarnation tested Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, identifying them as Enhancement, Specialization, and Conjuration users and explaining the difference between Shinobi techniques and Nen applications.
• Hyuga Akira’s Incarnation told the students to learn Ninjutsu by taking it from others, while the original Hyuga Akira watched from Konoha and complained that his clone was neglecting experience farming.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō argued over reparations from the other villages, while Hyuga Akira and Hiruko followed Danzō out of the Hokage’s Office.
• Nagato and Yahiko practiced combat, Konan trained in Zetsu, and Hyuga Akira’s Incarnation warned her that sight, heartbeat, and breathing could reveal her presence.
• Yahiko celebrated defeating Nagato, and Hyuga Akira’s Incarnation challenged him to fight, noting that he was a Transmuter.

Hyuga Akira watched Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan defeat a group of wandering ninja, then criticized their fighting skills and promised proper training. At Konoha, Danzo ended Akira’s recruitment mission and paid him for his work, while Akira was told to resume persuading Orochimaru.

• Yahiko ordered the children to hide when Hyuga Akira sensed approaching chakra, and he, Nagato, and Konan confronted the wandering ninja.
• The three children defeated more than ten attackers using chakra-enhanced blows, and Yahiko’s back repelled a sneak attack.
• Hyuga Akira criticized the children’s reckless fighting and said he would give them proper instruction.
• At Root, Hyuga Akira saw Hiruko’s experiment with Hashirama Cells fail as a captive’s body turned to wood.
• Danzo explained that Hyuga Akira’s presence had helped Root recruit the Aburame and Yamanaka clans, then told him to resume persuading Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Akira demanded payment for his mission, and Danzo ordered Aburame Ryoma to pay him the rate for an A-rank mission.

Hyuga Akira forced Orochimaru to join Root by threatening him in the hospital, then returned to Danzo to claim his reward. Danzo made Akira the leader of Root’s Second Squad and warned him not to target the Uchiha Clan.

• Hyuga Akira visited the hospitalized Sannin, where Tsunade thanked him for rescuing them and Jiraiya thanked him as well.
• Hyuga Akira asked Orochimaru to join Root, and Orochimaru explained that Danzo had previously refused to let him join.
• When Orochimaru declined, Hyuga Akira pinned his blanket down and set it on fire until Orochimaru agreed.
• Hyuga Akira reported Orochimaru’s agreement to Danzo, who appointed him leader of Root’s Second Squad.
• Danzo warned Hyuga Akira not to target the Uchiha Clan, and Hyuga Akira pretended not to hear him.

Hyuga Akira took command of Root's Second Squad, a unit tasked with killing Shinobi from Konoha, and eagerly welcomed its grim missions. He granted five capable subordinates new powers, winning their apparent allegiance as he began consolidating control of the squad.

• Aburame Ryoma explained that the Second Squad had twenty members and was responsible for surrounding and killing targets from their own village, while Hyuga Akira reacted with excitement.
• Aburame Ryoma appointed Hyuga Akira as captain, and Hyuga Akira inspected the squad before selecting five Shinobi who claimed they could fight and kill a Jonin.
• The five introduced themselves as Yamawaro, Umizatou, Earth Spider, Hatsu Oni, and Rain Woman, and Hyuga Akira used the Phantom Troupe's Curse to grant them new abilities.
• The five kneeled and offered their service, but Hyuga Akira told them to prove their loyalty and revealed his identity and Black-Blue Flames.

Hyuga Akira tried to secure more Root missions so he could earn experience, but Danzo rejected his proposed quotas and walked away. Akira then went to the Hokage's Office, where Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to receive the Four Great Ninja Villages' delegations with Danzo.

• Hyuga Akira offered to accept even one Root mission per month after Danzo rejected his proposal to target a hundred Shinobi.
• Danzo left rather than continue discussing Akira's plans to kill Konoha Shinobi for Root's supposed quota.
• Hyuga Akira went home briefly before jogging to the Hokage's Office, where he found Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Hatake Sakumo.
• Hyuga Akira considered robbing Orochimaru because Orochimaru had not taught him anything, and Orochimaru realized Akira was eyeing him.
• Danzo arrived at the Hokage's Office and found Hyuga Akira there; Hiruzen Sarutobi then said they would receive the Four Great Ninja Villages together.

After the Second Shinobi World War ended, Hyuga Akira attended reparations negotiations and spent his free time teasing Shikaku Nara. He returned home to find Machi waiting with news of a visitor, leaving the visitor unidentified.

• Hatake Sakumo observed Hyuga Akira at the conference, while Hyuga Akira studied Hatake Sakumo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi led Konoha into the conference room, where Shikaku Nara negotiated reparations with the Four Great Ninja Villages as Hyuga Akira intimidated their representatives.
• The Five Great Villages concluded negotiations and signed a mutual nonaggression treaty, while Hyuga Akira wondered when the next war would begin.
• Hyuga Akira met Nara Rokuji and young Shikaku Nara, teased the boy, and heard Nara Rokuji warn him to keep his distance from Hyuga Akira.
• Hyuga Akira returned home and found Machi in Anbu uniform; she told him a visitor was waiting and dismissed his criticism of her training.

Hyuga Akira recruited Hyuga Hikaru to secretly bring Branch Family members into Root in exchange for removing their Caged Bird Seals. He then sent Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan out to gain experience by hunting Rain Ninja, promising to face Hanzo if necessary.

• Hyuga Akira warned Machi that she needed to become stronger or risk being discarded.
• Hyuga Hikaru met Hyuga Akira in secret and explained that the Hyuga Main Family had forbidden contact with him.
• Hyuga Akira agreed to remove Caged Bird Seals for Branch Family members who pledged loyalty, offered proof of allegiance, and joined Root.
• Hyuga Akira told Hyuga Hikaru to contact the Branch Family and help him become Root's leader.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan finished their Nen training and reached the combat fundamentals of ordinary Genin.
• Hyuga Akira sent the three to gather Ninjutsu and experience by hunting Rain Ninja, promising to take on Hanzo if he appeared.

Hyuga Akira helped Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato found the Akatsuki, then warned Nagato that Madara Uchiha was watching him and urged him to protect his Rinnegan. After sending the three young people out to help children and hunt Rain Ninja, Akira turned his attention to Hanzo, who decided to seize supplies from beyond the Land of Rain’s borders.

• Yahiko accepted Hyuga Akira’s challenge to attack Rain Ninja, and the group chose the name Akatsuki with Akira as its First.
• Hyuga Akira told Nagato that White Zetsu was watching him on Madara Uchiha’s behalf and advised him to make the Rinnegan his own and destroy it after death.
• Hyuga Akira kicked Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato out of the village, and Yahiko led them toward a nearby city to help children in need.
• Hyuga Akira watched the three leave and prepared to go after Hanzo.
• Hanzo learned that refugees would not return to the Land of Rain and ordered his forces to raid beyond its borders for supplies and train troops.

Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan rescued survivors across the Land of Rain and established settlements, drawing Hanzo’s attention as he ordered his Rain Ninja to bring them to Amegakure. Hyuga Akira watched from the Shadow World, while the trio continued their mission and left another settlement with food and a wagon.

• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan rescued children from starving adults, and Yahiko introduced their group as Dawn.
• Hyuga Akira observed the trio’s rescue work from the Shadow World and wondered whether he could use the Nara Clan’s Shadow Imitation Technique there.
• Yahiko refused Buxia’s demand that the trio stay and guard his settlement, and they continued rescuing survivors elsewhere.
• Hanzo learned about Dawn’s three young members and ordered his Rain Ninja to bring them to Amegakure, by force if necessary.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan left a settlement whose leader supported their work and provided them with a wagon and food.

Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan were ambushed by Rain Ninja, while Hyuga Akira trapped their leader, Murakami Hana, in a world of shadows. As the teams fought, Yahiko revealed his unique Judgment of Justice ability, which strengthened his attacks against the sinful and healed the innocent.

• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan encountered four Rain Ninja, who tried to take them to Amegakure, and refused to join them.
• Hyuga Akira swallowed Murakami Hana and his bees into the Shadow World, revealed his identity, and prevented Murakami Hana from escaping.
• Hyuga Akira made Murakami Hana watch the battles outside and hinted that Hanzo was his target.
• Yahiko fought a chunin, endured his water-based attacks, and summoned the silver-armored figure called Judgment of Justice.
• Yahiko explained that Judgment of Justice strengthened his attacks against those with sins and healed those without them.

Yahiko and Konan defeated their opponents while Nagato used his Six Paths of Reincarnation ability to overcome a powerful shinobi. Hyuga Akira stopped Murakami Hana from sending information, survived his suicide attack, and collected a rare skill and other items.

• Yahiko explained his Judgment of Justice ability and defeated the chunin by transforming into water and dragging him underwater.
• Hyuga Akira burned Murakami Hana's hidden bees, used genjutsu to knock him unconscious, and watched the other fights.
• Konan flew above her opponent and killed him with waves of paper shuriken and kunai.
• Nagato used his Six Paths of Reincarnation abilities to defeat a special jōnin with coordinated attacks.
• Murakami Hana woke, revealed explosive tags for Amegakure and Lord Hanzo, and died when they detonated.
• Hyuga Akira burned a bee trying to escape the Shadow World and collected a Nanika's Wish List Fragment, a Chimera Ant Bracer, and Forced Growth.

Hyuga Akira rejected a dangerous skill while Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan gathered ninjutsu scrolls, and Zetsu warned Hanzo that Hyuga Akira was targeting him. On their return journey, the three found one settlement under armed control and were captured as the soldiers dragged residents from their homes.

• Hyuga Akira decided not to learn the level-resetting skill and remained satisfied with his Chimera Ant wristguard.
• Yahiko healed Nagato while Konan and Nagato teased him, and the three collected ninjutsu scrolls under Hyuga Akira’s watch.
• Hanzo learned from Zetsu that Hyuga Akira had targeted him and vowed to kill him.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan returned past settlements they had helped, then encountered soldiers claiming the fourth settlement for Lord Kusayama.
• The soldiers handcuffed the three and led them through the deserted settlement, where they saw troops dragging residents from a house.

Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan discovered that Kusayama had turned their settlement into a place where people were enslaved and sold, so they fought their way to his residence and killed him. Hanzo then surrounded the three and demanded to know where Hyuga Akira was, but Akira appeared and faced him.

• Yahiko learned from a prisoner that Kusayama had enslaved the settlement’s people and was protected by three Shinobi.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to break open the prison cell, and Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan revealed their true appearances and fought toward the Lord’s Residence.
• Konan killed Kusayama with a Paper Shuriken, while Yahiko and Nagato wondered where his three Shinobi were.
• Hanzo arrived with a large force of Amegakure Shinobi as Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan left the residence, then demanded to know where Hyuga Akira was.
• Hyuga Akira rescued the three from Hanzo’s scythe and confronted Hanzo from a rooftop.

Hyuga Akira used Nagato’s Rinnegan and chakra inside his Game Instance to overwhelm Hanzo’s forces with a meteor. After surviving the strike, Hanzo challenged Akira with a Poison Dragon Technique, while Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan remained trapped in the safe zone.

• Hyuga Akira trapped Hanzo and the Rain Ninja in his Game Instance, explained its factions, and restricted their movements as the landscape changed into a forest.
• Hyuga Akira borrowed Nagato’s Rinnegan and chakra, then used Tengai Shinsei to wipe out the Rain Ninja with a meteor.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan survived in a protected space beneath the meteor’s rubble, while Hanzo and Ibuse emerged from the destruction.
• Hanzo praised Hyuga Akira’s strength, asked about his dream, and attacked him with Ibuse using the Poison Release: Poison Dragon Technique.

Hyuga Akira defeated Hanzo and White Zetsu in the Game Instance, then returned toward Konoha and sorted through his drops. He gained several powerful items and skills but set aside or smelted many of them, while White Zetsu’s drop began a collection for summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Hyuga Akira crushed the meteorite with Shinra Tensei, pulled White Zetsu from underground, and burned him to ashes, winning the Game Instance.
• Black Zetsu hid underground and worried that no one in the Shinobi World could kill Hyuga Akira.
• Hyuga Akira sent a clone to look after Nagato and the other children, then traveled toward Konoha through the Shadow World while deciding not to confront Madara Uchiha.
• Hyuga Akira synthesized the Hunter and Chimera Ant sets into a Hunter License, a Chimera Ant King Bloodline, and the Twelve Zodiac Signs skill; he equipped the license and learned the skill.
• Hyuga Akira kept useful drops such as the Breath of the Archangel and Toxin Organ, smelted several other items, and used Hanzo’s Swordsmanship to gain experience.
• Hyuga Akira received a Demonic Statue of the Outer Path fragment from White Zetsu, bringing his collection to 1/100.

Hyuga Akira wished for more chakra but received a mission to hunt a Kage within three years, then fused his genjutsu skills into Yin Release and gained control over a giant fox demon. He leveled up on the way back, reaching Konoha with renewed strength and an unresolved Kage-hunting mission.

• Hyuga Akira wished to increase his chakra, and Nanika assigned him a three-year mission to hunt a Kage, with failure reducing his chakra to zero.
• Hyuga Akira upgraded Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death, fused it with his other genjutsu skills, and obtained Yin Release with the Forest trait.
• Hyuga Akira used Yin Release to control the giant fox demon, overcoming its attempts to resist him.
• Hyuga Akira raised his level ten times, increasing his chakra and physical strength as he traveled toward Konoha.
• Hyuga Akira rode the fox demon to Konoha, arriving after one day.

Hyuga Akira visited Minato Namikaze and Kushina to congratulate them on becoming Shinobi, but his gift of a kunai with a bow led to awkward encounters. Jiraiya questioned Akira about destroying the Shinobi World, and Akira left him wondering how the prophecy would unfold.

• Hyuga Akira learned that Minato Namikaze and Kushina had graduated and went to visit Minato with a kunai tied with a bow.
• At Minato’s home, Akira met Jiraiya’s students, Akimichi Yoshimaru and Uchiha Chizuru, who became excited when she recognized him as the Flame Demon Jonin.
• Jiraiya asked Akira whether the Shinobi World should exist, and Akira warned him not to make the toads’ words his life’s goal before leaving.
• Jiraiya recalled the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy about a blue-eyed Byakugan, the Shinobi World’s destruction, and a child of destiny, and wondered what Akira intended to do.
• Akira went to Kushina’s home and found Nawaki there, who mocked his bow-decorated kunai gift before letting him inside.

Hyuga Akira visited Kushina, gave her a kunai with a bow, and learned that Mito Uzumaki’s Nine-Tails intensely loathed him. After a peaceful visit home, Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Akira and assigned him to guard the Daimyo, who had specifically requested him.

• Mito Uzumaki told Hyuga Akira that the Nine-Tails loathed him, while the fox demanded that she kill him.
• Hyuga Akira gave Kushina a kunai with a bow, and she accepted it despite being startled by his insistence that she like it.
• Hyuga Akira asked Nawaki about his training, then returned home and found Machi exhausted from monitoring the Uchiha for Danzo.
• Hyuga Xia Nai emerged from the kitchen and nervously claimed she had heard nothing.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Hyuga Akira and revealed that the Daimyo had specifically requested him as a guard.

Hyuga Akira, Hatake Sakumo, and Kazuma traveled to the Capital of Fire to protect the Daimyo, where Akira challenged the nobles’ abuses and clashed with Sakumo over their duty. When wandering Shinobi tried to stop a fleeing couple, Akira and Sakumo intervened and burned the attackers to ashes.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Hyuga Akira and Kazuma to accompany Hatake Sakumo on a mission to protect the Daimyo, and Akira joked about accidentally killing him.
• Hatake Sakumo led the team to the Capital of Fire, where Hyuga Akira criticized the nobles’ power and questioned Sakumo’s willingness to tolerate their abuses.
• A boy named Ito rescued Imi from soldiers abducting her, and the two fled toward the city wall.
• Wandering Shinobi working for Lord Fujiwara blocked Ito and Imi in an alley, while Hyuga Akira and Hatake Sakumo appeared nearby.
• Hyuga Akira mocked Sakumo’s disguise, and the wandering Shinobi attacked before their bodies were consumed by blue-black flames.

Hyuga Akira and Hatake Sakumo guarded the Daimyo of the Land of Fire while he tried to win them over with lavish hospitality and extra money. Their uneventful assignment ended with the Daimyo still unable to sway them, though both Akira and Kazuma accepted his bonus pay.

• Hyuga Akira and Hatake Sakumo used Shadow Clones while escorting the girl, then presented their mission scroll to the Daimyo and began guarding him.
• Hyuga Akira concealed himself with Yin Release, but Hatake Sakumo sensed something was wrong and noticed him.
• The Daimyo and the nobles complained about Konoha attracting commoners and merchants, then the Daimyo asked the Konoha Shinobi what they thought of the Land of Fire.
• The Daimyo sent women to the hot spring and later arranged a girl for Hyuga Akira, but Akira and Hatake Sakumo both avoided the attempted seduction.
• After nearly a month of peaceful duty, the Daimyo offered the three Shinobi extra pay; Hyuga Akira and Kazuma accepted it while Hatake Sakumo objected.