Chapter Summaries

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.

Hyuga Akira chose Bartholomew Kuma’s Paw-Paw Fruit trait for his max-level Kumate and used newly acquired Exorcism to disable the Caged Bird Seal. He assessed his remaining loot, gaining a major Chakra increase and a powerful weapon while realizing that his close-combat strength had fallen.

• Hyuga Akira selected Bartholomew Kuma’s trait for Kumate, gaining paw pads that could fire powerful air bullets but could not yet support teleportation or other advanced effects.
• Hyuga Akira combined the Exorcist Skill Fragments dropped by Shōzō and Taira, learned Exorcism, and disabled the Caged Bird Seal; he expected complete removal to take at least three years.
• Hyuga Akira activated his Byakugan and confirmed that the seal no longer restricted his vision, then considered whether Exorcism could remove Tailed Beast seals.
• Hyuga Akira equipped Taira’s Chimera Ant Ring and learned Gallery Fake, increasing his maximum Chakra and gaining the ability to copy inanimate objects for an hour.
• Hyuga Akira examined Shōzō’s drops, including the Dark Battle Blade, and realized that changing Kumate had reduced his close-combat strength, so he decided to seek Monster Strength.

Hyuga Akira considered using a Yorknew City invitation but decided to seek protection in Konoha first, where the Hyuga Main Family would threaten him over the disabled Caged Bird Seal. He asked Danzo to let him join Root and revealed that he could undo seals, leaving Danzo demanding proof.

• Hyuga Akira examined the Yorknew City invitation scroll and Hunter server summon card, deciding to save the summon card and postpone visiting the Hunter server.
• Hyuga Akira feared the Hyuga Main Family would imprison or kill him after discovering the Caged Bird Seal no longer worked, so he chose to seek Danzo’s protection.
• Hyuga Akira told a Shinobi he had important intelligence for Danzo and was escorted to Danzo’s tent.
• Hyuga Akira asked to join Root, and Danzo questioned how he had learned about the secret organization before refusing him as a Hyuga Branch Family member.
• Hyuga Akira revealed that he had dealt with the Caged Bird Seal and claimed he could undo all seals, prompting Danzo to demand proof.

Hyuga Akira joined Root and was ordered to return to Konoha rather than fight in the Land of Rain, so he used his free time to enter the Hunter x Hunter world. There, he located himself in Kento City, defeated former Hunter Exam candidates for money, and set off for Heavens Arena.

• Hyuga Akira removed a female Shinobi's Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal, and Danzo replanted it before inviting Akira to join Root.
• Hyuga Akira said he wanted to kill Shinobi, even Danzo, and Danzo accepted him as Root material.
• Danzo told Hyuga Akira to return to Konoha and said he could join the war later; Akira reluctantly agreed.
• Hyuga Akira used an instance scroll to enter the Hunter x Hunter world, learned he was in Kento City about a month after the Hunter Exam, and saw a mission to destroy the Phantom Troupe.
• Former Hunter Exam candidates attacked Hyuga Akira for his Hunter License, but he beat them, took their money, and headed toward Heavens Arena.

Hyuga Akira entered Heavens Arena, used his malicious Nen to clear a path through the registration line, and quickly defeated his first opponent. He met Gon, Killua, Wing, and Zushi on the way to the fiftieth floor, then revealed his true appearance and asked Zushi about Nen.

• Hyuga Akira unleashed malicious Nen in the registration line, frightening contestants and forcing his way to the desk, where he received number 1888.
• Hyuga Akira knocked out his first opponent in the ring and earned 21 experience, while Gon and Killua also won their opening fights.
• Hyuga Akira spotted Wing and Zushi, then rode the elevator to the fiftieth floor with them, Gon, and Killua.
• Hyuga Akira greeted Gon and Killua, transformed into Muyu's appearance, and explained that his disguise was an ability before revealing his real face.
• Hyuga Akira told Gon, Killua, and Zushi that Nen was a power anyone could master, and Killua warned Zushi that Hyuga Akira seemed to be targeting him.

Hyuga Akira faced Killua in the Heaven’s Arena and tested the Zoldyck assassin’s techniques, copying Rhythm Echo and defeating him with Gentle Fist. Killua overcame Akira’s pressure-point strikes and stood back up, leaving Akira surprised that he had not earned experience.

• Hyuga Akira and Killua reached the hundredth floor after winning six consecutive matches, and the arena arranged their fight on the hundred-and-tenth floor.
• Killua hesitated to attack Akira, but then launched a series of strikes; Akira blocked them and used Byakugan and Gentle Fist to read his movements.
• Killua used Rhythm Echo, and Akira copied the technique after seeing it once before countering it with his own version.
• Killua attacked with Snake Alive, but Akira used Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to disable his arms and send him crashing to the edge of the ring.
• Killua forced his pressure points open through blood flow, stood back up, and surprised Akira, who wondered why no experience notification had appeared.