Recaps

Miya fought Orochimaru as his mentor pushed him to reveal his limits, and his Atomic Rasengan nearly killed Orochimaru. Orochimaru survived by using the Shedding Technique, leaving Miya to ask whether they would continue.

• Miya destroyed Orochimaru’s venomous snakes with Rasengan and questioned whether Orochimaru was trying to kill him.
• Orochimaru attacked with a Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, but Miya’s Atomic Chakra Armor deflected every shuriken.
• Orochimaru praised Miya’s abilities and attacked with the Kusanagi Sword to test his defense.
• Miya activated Overload Mode and struck Orochimaru with an Atomic Rasengan, destroying most of his body.
• Orochimaru crawled from the remains using the Shedding Technique, and Miya asked whether they would continue.

After Miya passed his graduation evaluation, Orochimaru told him to enter the Chunin Ninja Exams in two months and train with him until then. Miya asked Orochimaru for nutritious food and revealed that eating strengthened his body, leading Orochimaru to suspect he had a new Kekkei Genkai.

• Orochimaru gave Miya a perfect score on his graduation evaluation after their fight.
• Orochimaru told Miya that Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted him to participate in the Chunin Ninja Exams in two months and said he would train him.
• Miya agreed to enter the exams and asked Orochimaru to obtain a large amount of highly nutritious food.
• Miya told Orochimaru that his body absorbed everything he ate and that eating improved his physical abilities.
• Orochimaru suspected Miya's ability was a previously unknown Kekkei Genkai and asked him to confirm it.

After Miya made a deal with Orochimaru, he celebrated graduating with Kurenai and Rin, who drank enough to become drunk. Yūhi Shinku caught Miya carrying the girls home, then confronted Kurenai at home but softened when she cried.

• Orochimaru agreed to verify Miya's claim and promised to find him in a couple of days.
• Miya celebrated his graduation at a barbecue restaurant with Kurenai and Rin, and the three drank until late.
• Miya carried the drunken Kurenai and Rin to Kurenai's house, where Yūhi Shinku confronted them.
• Yūhi Shinku sent Kurenai inside and told Miya and Rin to go home; Rin took Miya away.
• Yūhi Shinku asked Kurenai whether she had been drinking, and she began crying instead of answering.
• Yūhi Shinku immediately comforted Kurenai and apologized.

Miya let Orochimaru study his ability to grow stronger by eating nutritious food, and the tests confirmed that a white jade snake had slightly increased his physical attributes overnight. Orochimaru became eager to investigate Miya’s newly discovered Kekkei Genkai, while Miya left with more Ninjutsu scrolls and hopes of a steady supply of food.

• Kurenai used her tears to soften Yūhi Shinku, then watched him hide his liquor stash and laughed when he failed to notice her.
• Miya walked Rin Nohara home, and two days later Orochimaru brought him to an underground laboratory for testing.
• Orochimaru drew Miya’s blood, examined his physical attributes, and gave him a small white jade snake to eat.
• After eating the snake, Miya returned the next morning, and Orochimaru found that all of his physical attributes had increased slightly.
• Orochimaru called Miya’s ability a newly discovered Kekkei Genkai and continued his research as Miya left with Ninjutsu scrolls and a promise of more food.

Miya studied Lightning Release techniques from Orochimaru’s scrolls and showed his growing skill during a training match. Orochimaru then gave him a solo B-Rank mission outside the village, prompting Miya to head for Hiruzen Sarutobi to protest.

• Miya studied the Lightning Release basics and techniques Orochimaru had given him.
• At Training Ground 40, Miya used Lightning Light Palm and a Lightning Clone against Orochimaru, but Orochimaru outmaneuvered him with clones and trickery.
• Orochimaru handed Miya a mission scroll from Hiruzen Sarutobi and told him to leave immediately for a solo mission outside the village.
• Miya objected to receiving a B-Rank mission so soon after graduating and hurried to the Hokage building to confront Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• After Miya left, Orochimaru revealed that he believed Miya was strong enough to handle the mission alone.

Miya Hanama tried to confront Hiruzen Sarutobi about being sent alone on a B-Rank mission, but Sumi Nara refused to announce him. Miya left Konoha to carry out the mission, while Orochimaru followed with two more mission scrolls.

• Miya arrived at the Hokage Building and demanded that Sumi Nara let him see Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Sumi refused, so Miya left a warning that he would not overlook being sent out alone on a B-Rank mission.
• An Anbu Ninja reported Miya's words to Hiruzen, who revealed that he had assigned the mission partly to escape Miya's enormous food bills.
• Miya prepared his things, left Konoha, and vowed to get even with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Orochimaru followed Miya with two mission scrolls, planning to give them to him after he completed his current mission.

Miya traveled to Mount Batō to eliminate a bandit group led by an Iwagakure spy and obtain the spy’s intelligence. After drawing the bandits out, he used two Shadow Clones to slaughter them, and the three Iwagakure shinobi arrived as the fight continued.

• Miya reached Mount Batō after three days of travel and approached the bandits’ stronghold without trying to infiltrate it.
• A lookout spotted Miya’s Konoha forehead protector and raised the alarm, and Miya killed him from the tower.
• Miya summoned two Shadow Clones and sent them into the crowd of roughly two hundred bandits.
• The Shadow Clones killed about half the bandits, while Miya spotted the three Iwagakure shinobi hurrying toward them.

Miya slaughtered the bandits on Mount Batō and confronted the three Iwagakure ninja leading them. He killed Tomoyuki Sugiyama with an Atomic Rasengan and seized Nao Yara’s wrist, while Akito Otsuka remained ready to fight.

• Orochimaru followed Miya to Mount Batō and sent small snakes ahead to observe how he handled a life-or-death battle.
• Miya’s Shadow Clones killed most of the bandits, and Akito Otsuka, Tomoyuki Sugiyama, and Nao Yara recognized him as a dangerous Konoha prodigy.
• Tomoyuki Sugiyama beheaded a fleeing bandit, and Nao Yara forced the remaining bandits to charge Miya by threatening them.
• After the last bandits fell, Miya demanded information from the three Iwagakure ninja, but Nao Yara and Tomoyuki Sugiyama attacked him while Akito Otsuka prepared a technique.
• Miya dodged their attacks and killed Tomoyuki Sugiyama with an Atomic Rasengan, then caught Nao Yara by the wrist as Akito Otsuka watched.

Miya defeated Akito Otsuka and kept him alive as a captive, then confronted Daisuke Ono, who had tried to kill Akito. Miya overwhelmed Daisuke in their fight and sent him flying.

• Miya broke free of Akito Otsuka's swamp technique, killed Nao Yara, and knocked Akito unconscious.
• Miya dodged Daisuke Ono's Shuriken and saved Akito from being killed by the attack.
• Daisuke Ono confronted Miya and threw more Shuriken before attacking with Earth Release techniques.
• Miya countered Daisuke Ono's Earth Dragon Bullet Technique and clashed with his Rock Fist Technique using Lightning Release.
• Miya increased his strength and sent Daisuke Ono flying with a heavy blow.

Miya defeated Daisuke Ono, captured him and Akito Otsuka, and looted the Mount Batō stronghold before setting out for Konoha. Orochimaru met him on the way back and asked for a mission report, which Miya began to give.

• Miya used his Atomic Chakra and Rasengan to defeat Daisuke Ono after Daisuke escaped his first attacks with the Substitution Technique and Headhunter Jutsu.
• Miya bound the unconscious Daisuke Ono and Akito Otsuka, searched the stronghold for loot, and carried the prisoners away from Mount Batō.
• Miya reflected that he had found no intelligence but expected Konoha's interrogation department to question the two captives.
• Orochimaru emerged from the shadows, congratulated Miya on completing his first mission, and asked him to report what had happened.
• Miya asked Orochimaru for food, then began recounting how he had arrived at the stronghold and planned to infiltrate it for intelligence.

Miya reported capturing two Iwagakure intelligence ninjas but failing to recover their recorded intelligence, then received two more missions from Orochimaru. After Orochimaru left with the prisoners, Miya delayed his assignments to enjoy time in the forest before setting out again.

• Miya told Orochimaru that he had killed the bandits, captured two Iwagakure ninjas, and discovered that Hiruzen Sarutobi's intelligence report had missed one enemy.
• Orochimaru refused Miya's request for another snake and assigned him two more missions, including an A-rank mission in the Land of Grass.
• Orochimaru summoned a giant snake to swallow the prisoners Daisuke Ono and Akito Otsuka, then revealed he was a Shadow Clone and left Miya to finish the missions alone.
• Miya angrily vowed to get even with Hiruzen Sarutobi, hunted two tigers, and spent time camping in the forest.
• Miya set out the next morning, singing his altered version of "Wild and Free" as he traveled.

After completing a long assignment to wipe out bandit strongholds, Miya entered the Land of Grass for his final mission. He stumbled upon Kakashi Hatake and his team under attack, and offered to help.

• Miya finished his bandit-clearing mission, killing fewer than fifteen hundred people, and spent several days sightseeing before heading into the Land of Grass.
• Miya heard fighting in the woods and found a carriage surrounded by attackers.
• Miya recognized Kakashi Hatake on the carriage roof and identified the three Konoha Ninja fighting at the front as Kakashi's Jonin instructor and teammates.
• Kakashi threw Shuriken at Miya, then recognized him as an old classmate and remained wary of his intentions.
• Miya asked Kakashi if he needed a hand.

Miya joined Kakashi’s mission and swiftly defeated the attacking samurai and several enemy ninja. After taking Karubin’s Earth Dragon Bullet head-on, Miya captured Karubin’s two subordinates and fatally struck Karubin, leaving Yunosuke wondering who he was.

• Miya agreed to help Kakashi, then defeated the attacking samurai with his speed and Rasengan, earning Kakashi’s promise of three meals.
• Kakashi asked Miya to help protect his employer, and Miya moved to assist Yunosuke, Shutaku, and Takashi in their battle against Karubin and his subordinates.
• Karubin tried to retreat and used Earth Dragon Bullet to attack Yunosuke, Shutaku, Takashi, and his own subordinates, but Miya blocked the barrage with Atomic Chakra Armor.
• Karubin’s two subordinates tried to flee, but Miya caught them and told the others to keep watch over them.
• Miya pursued Karubin, struck his substitution log, then found him hiding behind a tree and hit him with Atomic Big Ball Rasengan.
• Yunosuke reached the dying Karubin and asked Miya who he was.

Miya reached Asakusa Town to capture Tashiro Masato and obtain his underground black market pass, but Masato returned to the inn through a secret passage after Miya had failed to find him. Two Sunagakure missing-nin brothers also tracked Masato, hoping to recover something he had stolen from them.

• Yunosuke reported encountering Miya on a solo mission, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to summon Orochimaru and ask about Miya and the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Miya traveled to Asakusa Town and spent three days searching for Tashiro Masato at the hot spring inn, unaware that Masato had left shortly before he arrived.
• Tashiro Masato sold intelligence to the underground black market and returned to Asakusa Town through a secret passage while avoiding the main gate.
• Sugihiro Chōsen and Sugihiro Chōhei lost sight of Masato, entered town through the main gate, and began searching for the stolen item they wanted back.

Miya captured Tashiro Masato after the missing-nin attacked him, but the Sugihiro brothers ambushed them and demanded that Miya hand Tashiro over. The brothers launched their puppets at Miya, and the fight was left unresolved.

• Sugihiro Chōhei and Sugihiro Chōsen found Tashiro Masato at an inn and followed him when he left town.
• Tashiro Masato mistook Miya for a Konoha pursuer and attacked him with a Kunai.
• Miya caught Tashiro Masato’s wrist, broke all four of his limbs, and identified him as the missing-nin he had been ordered to capture.
• Sugihiro Chōhei and Sugihiro Chōsen attacked from a rooftop and demanded that Miya surrender Tashiro Masato.
• Miya refused to back down, and the brothers sent their puppets flying toward him.

Miya defeated and captured the missing-nin puppet masters Sugihiro Chōhei and Sugihiro Chōsen, then forced them to reveal how to form Chakra Threads. After killing the brothers, he questioned Tashiro Masato about the Chakra Metal he had obtained on a mission.

• Miya destroyed Sugihiro Chōhei's puppet and knocked out both brothers with Atomic Rasengan attacks.
• Miya took the unconscious brothers to a forest cave, where he found black iron tokens but not the Chakra Thread technique.
• Miya tortured Sugihiro Chōhei and Sugihiro Chōsen until they disclosed their method for forming Chakra Threads.
• Miya used his newly formed Chakra Thread and Atomic Ray to kill the brothers.
• Miya woke Tashiro Masato and asked where he had hidden the Chakra Metal from his mission more than three months earlier.

Miya returned to Konoha after completing three missions and confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi, who tried to discuss his experience and promote him to Chunin. Hiruzen then asked Miya how he felt about the village, and Miya’s enthusiastic answer was about to be undercut by whatever he said next.

• Miya returned to Konoha carrying Tashiro Masato and delivered his mission report and captive to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Miya counted his one-million-ryo reward in Hiruzen’s office and brushed off questions about his missions.
• Hiruzen tried to praise Miya’s understanding of the Will of Fire, but Miya demanded to know why he had been summoned.
• Hiruzen offered to promote Miya to Chunin, but Miya rejected the offer and accused him of peeping into the women’s bathhouse.
• Miya blamed the rumor on Orochimaru, prompting Hiruzen to deny it and change the subject.
• Hiruzen asked whether Miya liked Konoha, and Miya said he loved the village before beginning his next remark.

Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to persuade Miya to enter the Chunin Ninja Exams so Konoha could display its strength, but Miya repeatedly refused. Hiruzen finally offered to negotiate, leaving Miya free to name his conditions.

• Miya mocked Hiruzen Sarutobi over his past behavior and rejected his attempt to ask for help.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Miya an A-rank mission to participate in the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Miya refused, while Hiruzen explained that he wanted to use Miya's Jonin-level strength to deter other villages.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi considered raising the mission's rank and reward, but Miya continued to refuse.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Miya what conditions would persuade him to take part, saying everything was negotiable.

Miya forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to pay him ten million ryō and record his participation in the Chunin Ninja Exams as an S-rank mission. After celebrating with Kurenai Yuhi and Rin Nohara, Miya returned home to find Orochimaru waiting and asking about his share of the money.

• Miya refused Hiruzen's offer of one million ryō and demanded ten million ryō for taking part in the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Hiruzen agreed to pay ten million ryō as compensation, and Miya insisted on receiving the money immediately.
• Miya left the Hokage building with the money, hid most of it at home, and took one million ryō to treat Kurenai Yuhi and Rin Nohara to dinner.
• Miya escorted Kurenai Yuhi and Rin Nohara home, where Yūhi Shinku gave him a murderous glare outside Kurenai's door.
• Miya returned home and found Orochimaru waiting; Orochimaru asked whether Miya had already spent his share.

Orochimaru took five hundred thousand ryō from Miya, then taught him the Summoning Technique of Ryūchi Cave to get him out of his laboratory. Miya happily accepted the chance to summon snakes and potentially learn Senjutsu, while Orochimaru left relieved that he could return to his research.

• Orochimaru demanded five hundred thousand ryō from Miya, who reluctantly paid after Orochimaru threatened to eat the food he had prepared.
• Miya repeatedly pestered Orochimaru for a little white jade snake, so Orochimaru took him to Konoha Training Ground 40 two days later.
• Orochimaru summoned a green snake, obtained Ryūchi Cave's Summoning Scroll, and told Miya to sign it with his name and a bloody handprint.
• Miya signed the scroll and received instructions to practice the Summoning Technique of Ryūchi Cave.
• Orochimaru left Miya at the training ground, relieved that the boy would stop disrupting his research.

Miya successfully learned the Summoning Technique and summoned a young white snake named Susu, whom he bullied into accepting him as her summoner. After Susu returned to Earth Dragon Cave, Miya went to Orochimaru to ask where the edible white jade snakes came from.

• Miya summoned Susu, mistook her for a male, and subdued her after she attacked him.
• Miya named Susu and asked whether Earth Dragon Cave had smaller, nutritious snakes for him to eat; Susu feared he meant to eat her and returned to Earth Dragon Cave.
• Susu returned to her den, then hunted and swallowed a spotted snake to nourish herself.
• Miya visited Orochimaru's underground laboratory and asked where the little white jade snakes he had given him came from.

Miya arranged to visit Ryūchi Cave with Orochimaru, then made Kakashi pay for a massive grilled-fish meal that nearly emptied his wallet. As Miya and Kakashi left the restaurant, Kakashi collided with a Sand Ninja who demanded an apology.

• Orochimaru told Miya that he would take him to Ryūchi Cave in a few days and showed him Miya’s unusually active blood.
• Miya ran into Kakashi and insisted that Kakashi treat him to grilled fish as one of the meals he owed.
• Miya ate enough fish to exhaust the restaurant’s supply, and Kakashi paid 115,000 ryō despite having planned to spend the money on ninja tools.
• Miya told Kakashi that the Third Hokage paid over a million ryō for his meals, startling Kakashi.
• Kakashi collided with a Sand Ninja outside the restaurant, and the ninja demanded an apology.

Miya and Kakashi clashed with three Sunagakure Genin after Kakashi punched Kengo, then left them behind. Two days later, Miya bonded with Susu and learned about the dangers of Ryūchi Cave before Orochimaru suddenly appeared and startled her.

• Kakashi punched Kengo when the Sunagakure Genin confronted him outside the grilled fish shop.
• Miya defended Kakashi, identified him as a Chunin, and challenged the Sunagakure Genin before leaving with Kakashi.
• Kengo vowed to make Miya pay, while Kakashi fled when Miya asked him to buy another meal.
• Two days later, Miya summoned Susu at the training ground and learned that intelligent snakes could become summoning beasts and that Ryūchi Cave was ruled by the law of the jungle.
• Orochimaru appeared with an icy aura, and Miya told him that he had scared Susu.

Orochimaru brought Miya to Ryūchi Cave and introduced him to the White Snake Sage, who approved of him as a summoner and invited him to visit often. Miya declined her offer to choose a snake because he already had Susu, then headed into the forest to hunt for something to eat.

• Orochimaru led Miya through Ryūchi Cave, where he killed a giant python that attacked them.
• Orochimaru introduced Miya to the White Snake Sage, who examined him and approved of him as one of Ryūchi Cave’s summoners.
• The White Snake Sage invited Miya to catch any snake he wanted, but Miya said he already had Susu as a summoned beast.
• Orochimaru asked Miya to leave while he spoke privately with the White Snake Sage, and she told Miya to visit often.
• Miya returned to the forest and eagerly eyed a giant blue python as food.

Miya spent several days eating snakes in Ryūchi Cave before preparing to return to Konoha for the Chunin Ninja Exams. Before leaving, he persuaded the White Snake Sage to train Susu so she could grow stronger and help him.

• Miya summoned Susu and offered her roasted snake meat, frightening her until she realized he meant the meat beside the fire.
• Orochimaru told Miya that the Chunin Ninja Exams would begin in a few days, then returned to Konoha.
• After several days of watching Miya eat enormous amounts of snake meat, Susu heard him say he would take her to meet the White Snake Sage.
• Miya brought Susu to the White Snake Sage and asked her to arrange training so Susu could become stronger.
• The White Snake Sage agreed to train Susu, who thanked her and promised to work hard.