Chapter Summaries

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.

Hyuga Akira secretly approached Hiryūsuke and offered to help him become Daimyo, then the Daimyo died of an apparently natural heart condition. A phantom fox killed the favored heir, plunging the Capital of Fire into chaos and leaving Hatake Sakumo suspicious of Akira.

• Hyuga Akira followed the Daimyo through his garden and overheard him rebuke Hiryūsuke for questioning the taxes and the capital’s decline.
• Hyuga Akira visited Hiryūsuke in secret, asked whether he wanted to become Daimyo, and proposed killing both the Daimyo and his favored heir.
• Hatake Sakumo questioned Hyuga Akira about his suspicions, but Akira insisted he had done nothing while guarding the Daimyo.
• The Daimyo collapsed and died from a ruptured blood vessel in his heart, and Hatake Sakumo immediately suspected Hyuga Akira.
• A gigantic phantom fox swallowed the favored heir, while Hyuga Akira moved the Daimyo’s corpse out of its reach.
• Hatake Sakumo attacked the fox but passed through it, and the successful assassination of the Daimyo’s son sent the Capital of Fire into chaos.

Hyuga Akira used genjutsu and an identity switch to eliminate Hiryūsuke and take the Land of Fire’s Daimyo position, leaving Hatake Sakumo suspicious but unaware of the truth. After securing recognition from the lords, Hyuga Akira ordered Kazuma to assemble an elite shinobi force called the Twelve Guardian Ninja.

• After the Daimyo’s death, Hiryūsuke suppressed his brothers but worried that the nobles suspected him of killing the heir.
• Hiryūsuke poisoned the apparent Hyuga Akira and arranged for Hatake Sakumo and the others to kill him, while the real Hyuga Akira concealed the truth with genjutsu and an Incarnation.
• Hatake Sakumo sensed something was wrong as he and Hyuga Akira returned to Konoha, but he failed to identify the deception.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Hyuga Akira and Hatake Sakumo about the mission and asked where their teammate Kazuma was.
• Hyuga Akira took office as the Land of Fire’s Daimyo and received the lords’ recognition.
• Hyuga Akira instructed Kazuma to recruit elite jonin-level shinobi for the Twelve Guardian Ninja.

Hyuga Akira urged Danzo to help him kill a Kage, but Danzo refused to start a war and rejected Akira’s suggestion to target the Uchiha. Akira then refereed a spar between Nawaki and Minato Namikaze, which ended with Nawaki launching a punch and kick.

• Hyuga Akira proposed killing a Kage, and Danzo objected to provoking a war before Konoha was ready.
• Danzo offered Hyuga Akira leadership of Root if he became Hokage, but Akira returned to discussing targets among the other villages.
• Hyuga Akira considered targeting the Third Kazekage and blamed Danzo’s ambition for his interest in attacking the Third Hokage.
• Hyuga Akira refused Nawaki’s challenge and suggested that Nawaki and Minato Namikaze spar instead.
• Hyuga Akira refereed as Minato Namikaze and Nawaki fought, with Nawaki using Strength of a Hundred Fist and Heavenly Foot of Pain.

Hyuga Akira joined Konoha Hospital as a medical ninja and proved so capable that its vice dean conceded he was better suited to lead it. After two peaceful years, Akira watched a group of ten Konoha shinobi approach the village and stop at the sight of an apparent Anbu member.

• Tsunade offered Akira a hospital position, and Hirota Kazuto angrily challenged her over who would become dean.
• Akira treated the hospital’s patients with remarkable speed, prompting Hirota to concede that Akira was more suited to be dean.
• Tsunade revealed that the medical prodigy was Flame Demon Hyuga Akira, and Hirota reacted with shock at the combat shinobi’s medical skills.
• Akira settled into a routine of working at the hospital by day and visiting Root and Hiruzen Sarutobi when he had time.
• Two years later, ten Konoha shinobi traveling through the Land of Fire stopped when their leader spotted an apparent Anbu member watching them from a tree.

Hyuga Akira led Root in wiping out a Uchiha squad, collected its Sharingan, and gained a Three-Tomoe Sharingan. He then returned to Root, where Danzo pushed Orochimaru to continue experiments with Hashirama cells, leaving Orochimaru troubled about facing Tsunade and Nawaki.

• Hyuga Akira and Root ambushed and killed a Uchiha squad after the squad questioned their orders.
• Hyuga Akira collected the dropped items, fused the Sharingan, and acquired a Three-Tomoe Sharingan while raising his experience to 612548.
• Hyuga Akira urged Danzo to let Root assassinate the Kazekage, but Danzo refused and sent him away.
• Orochimaru told Danzo that experiments with Hashirama cells had made no progress despite nearly exhausting the Senju Clan members hidden in Konoha.
• Danzo ordered Orochimaru to produce results by any means necessary, and Orochimaru worried about how he would face Tsunade and Nawaki.