Recaps

Miya returned from Ryūchi Cave just in time to reach the Chunin Ninja Exam venue, where he was the last candidate and had no teammates. As the exam was about to begin, Pakura and her Sunagakure teammates surveyed the Konoha candidates.

• The White Snake Sage told Susu to stay close to Miya, believing he could help fulfill her long-held wish.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi grew angry that Miya was missing and told Orochimaru to take the exam in Miya's place if he failed to arrive.
• Orochimaru reported that Miya had left Ryūchi Cave and was nearing the venue, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered him to prepare for the exam.
• Miya reached the Konoha Ninja Academy just before its gates closed, and an Anbu ninja reported his arrival to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Miya joined the exam as a one-man team because Hiruzen Sarutobi had not assigned him teammates.
• Pakura, Sato, and Gansanji discussed a Hyuga candidate's Byakugan, and Gansanji searched for an Uchiha candidate.

Miya entered Konoha’s Chunin Exam room as the chief examiner began a test built around strict rules and a thirty-team limit. After the first team was eliminated for questioning its blank paper, Miya figured out the key to passing.

• Pakura warned Sato and Gansanji to focus on the Hyūga and Uchiha, while the Uchiha were absent from the examination room.
• Miya entered, drawing attention with his powerful aura, and Yūhi Shinku introduced himself as chief examiner and ordered him to take his seat.
• Yūhi Shinku announced the exam rules, including that only the first thirty teams to finish would pass, and started the thirty-minute countdown.
• When Sasame Yūma questioned why his answer sheet was blank, Yūhi Shinku eliminated him and his teammates, Matsunaga Haruki and Fukiya Daigo.
• Miya realized the key to passing the exam.

During the Chunin exam, Miya realized the test was about identifying its hidden question and avoiding rule violations, while Kengo tried to exploit Miya's lack of teammates. Miya saw through the genjutsu behind their fight as the exam room erupted into chaos and several examinees attacked him.

• Yūhi Shinku eliminated examinees who had spoken to him or damaged their exam papers, while Miya deduced that the test required intelligence analysis and teamwork.
• Sato and Pakura said they understood the exam's purpose and reassured Gansanji that examinees could talk to one another.
• Kengo approached Miya and tried to grab his exam paper, but Miya caught him and appeared to break his arm before realizing the injury was part of a genjutsu.
• Miya smiled at Yūhi Shinku after recognizing the genjutsu, while other examinees prepared to attack Kengo and his teammates.
• An examinee shouted for everyone to move, and the exam room descended into chaos as attackers targeted Miya, whom they saw as an easy target.

Miya passed the Chunin Ninja Exams’ first test after breaking Yūhi Shinku’s Genjutsu, then followed Orochimaru to the Forest of Death for the second exam. As the teams prepared to enter, Miya saw the liability waiver as permission to pursue his plan to exceed his mission quota and earn an extra reward.

• Miya broke free of Yūhi Shinku’s Genjutsu, and Kengo escaped after dying in the illusion and helped Kotomi and Sōtarō wake up.
• The thirty-minute exam ended, and Miya and the other examinees who had escaped the Genjutsu answered that there was no problem and passed.
• Orochimaru arrived to take charge of the second exam, surprising the foreign Jonin and leaving Yukigakure’s Jonin to mourn that none of its six Genin had passed.
• Miya decided to exceed his mission quota so the Third Hokage would give him an extra reward.
• At the Forest of Death, Orochimaru explained the five-day scroll challenge and had the examinees sign liability waivers before entering.
• Miya welcomed the waiver as freedom to act without restraint, while Kengo fixed a sharp gaze on him.

Miya entered the Forest of Death intending to eliminate the other teams for the bounty, but found no opponents and complained that they were all liars. Meanwhile, Amegakure Genin Shinji, Imai, and Hayato prepared an ambush for him, though Shinji remained wary of Miya’s strength.

• Miya taunted the other examinees, signed the waiver, and asked Orochimaru to tell the Third Hokage to cancel the remaining exams and increase his bounty.
• Orochimaru told Jonin Hirotomo to pass Miya’s request to the Third Hokage as Miya entered the Forest of Death.
• Pakura warned Sato and Gansanji that Miya felt dangerous and might have a hidden advantage.
• Miya searched the forest for opponents, hoping to defeat enough teams to earn a larger bounty, but found no one and called the others liars.
• Shinji located Miya with the Water Reflection Jutsu, and Hayato agreed to join Imai in ambushing him despite Shinji’s warning to be careful.

Miya let three Rain Ninja ambush him, then revealed his strength by killing Imai and overpowering Hayato. When Shinji fled, Miya activated Limit Mode and prepared to pursue him.

• Imai attacked Miya with three explosive-tagged Kunai, but Miya dodged them and faced Imai, Hayato, and Shinji.
• Miya severed Imai’s leg, then killed him with a Kunai when he begged for mercy.
• Hayato and Shinji attacked Miya together; Miya kicked Hayato away and split Shinji’s Water Release technique with a lightning blade.
• Shinji abandoned his teammates and fled, while Miya activated Limit Mode to pursue him.

Miya killed Shinji and tortured Hayato, using their screams to lure other teams toward him. Several squads headed toward the fight while Pakura chose to stick to her plan, and the village Jonin watching the monitors realized Miya was setting a trap.

• Miya used Limit Mode to catch Shinji as he fled and cut him in two with an azure Lightning Blade Slash.
• In the monitoring room, Jiraiya and the other Jonin watched Miya's strength, while the Amegakure leader reacted with alarm.
• Miya stabbed Hayato in both thighs and forced him to scream as bait for approaching teams.
• Kengo rushed toward Miya, followed by his teammates and several squads from Konoha, Kusagakure, Takigakure, and Amegakure.
• Pakura ignored the screams and continued toward the central tower according to her plan.
• The Kusagakure Jonin recognized that Miya was luring the examinees in to catch them all at once.

Miya killed Hayato, took his Earth Scroll, and attacked the Kusagakure squad that arrived to confront him. Elsewhere, Hyūga Juta, Inuzuka Hikari, and Aburame Shihi were ambushed by Takigakure ninja, and both teams entered battle.

• Miya killed Hayato and took his Earth Scroll from the body.
• Kikuchi Keito and two Kusagakure Genin surrounded Miya, but Miya killed Kazuya before he could finish speaking.
• Hyūga Juta, Inuzuka Hikari, and Aburame Shihi were ambushed by three Takigakure ninja while racing toward Miya.
• Inuzuka Hikari and Kitaro attacked with Fang Over Fang as Juta and Shihi joined the fight.
• The Takigakure ninja countered with Wind, Lightning, and Water Release, but Shihi blocked the water attack with an Insect Wall and dodged the combined strike.
• Juta used Eight Trigrams: Sixteen Palms against the Takigakure ninja.

Miya fought off two Amegakure squads and Kengo’s team, killing all eight Genin and taking their scrolls. After hearing another fight nearby, he headed toward Hyūga Juta’s group.

• Miya found an Earth Scroll on a Grass Ninja corpse as three squads surrounded him, including Kengo, Sōtarō, and Kotomi.
• Six Rain Ninja attacked Miya, but he killed them all with Lightning Release: Lightning Blade Slash.
• Miya seized control of Kengo’s horse-shaped puppet, disarmed him, and killed him with a Kunai.
• Miya used Kengo’s puppet to kill Kotomi and Sōtarō, then collected four more scrolls.
• Miya heard Hyūga Juta’s group fighting three Waterfall Ninja and went to investigate.

Miya arrived as the injured Konoha team faced three elite Takigakure Genin, whose instructor feared the confrontation. The Takigakure ninja attacked Miya, while their instructor silently questioned their judgment.

• Hyūga Juta's Lightning Clone opponent exploded, and the blast sent Juta and Inuzuka Hikari flying before Aburame Shihi caught them.
• Hikari and Juta confirmed they could keep fighting, while Shihi searched for a way to overcome the coordinated Takigakure team.
• The Takigakure ninja mocked the injured Konoha team, and Hikari blamed himself for their predicament.
• Miya emerged from the forest, and Aburame Shihi said the team would be saved, though Inuzuka Hikari doubted Miya could help alone.
• A Takigakure ninja threw Kunai and Shuriken at Miya, who dodged easily as the enemy instructor silently cursed his students for provoking him.

Miya used killing intent and genjutsu to terrify three Takigakure Genin, then killed them with a lightning slash and took their scrolls. After he announced he would stop anyone from entering the tower, the village Jonin watching the exam feared Konoha intended to target their young ninja, and Jiraiya realized a major crisis was coming.

• Miya used the Hell Viewing Technique and his killing intent to break the three Takigakure Genin with fear.
• Miya killed the three Takigakure Genin with a lightning slash, then demanded the scroll from Hyūga Juta and his teammates.
• After Inuzuka Hikari cursed at him, Miya kicked him aside, and Hyūga Juta handed over his scroll.
• Miya collected both scrolls and left, while Hyūga Juta and Aburame Shihi helped the unconscious Inuzuka Hikari withdraw.
• Miya said he would block the tower entrance in three days if he could not find anyone, alarming the Jonin watching the exam.
• Jiraiya recognized that Miya's threat could cause a major crisis between the villages.

Yuta Nara warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Miya Hanama was killing the other villages' Genin in the Forest of Death, forcing Hiruzen to respond to the outraged village representatives. After seeing Miya continue to eliminate teams, Hiruzen ordered Orochimaru to end the exam while secretly approving of Miya's work.

• Yuta Nara told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Miya Hanama planned to kill the Genin from the other villages.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi entered the observation room as the village representatives accused Konoha of allowing a massacre.
• The representatives learned Miya had killed twenty-one Genin from other villages, eliminated nine Konoha Genin, and wiped out Amegakure's contestants.
• A Kusagakure Jonin watched Miya kill his village's final team, leaving Kusagakure without any contestants.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched Miya loot the bodies and ordered Jiraiya to have Orochimaru end the exam.

Miya continued killing contestants in the Forest of Death and caught up with Pakura’s team. As Miya faced Pakura, Sunagakure’s Jonin feared for her safety and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of provoking a war.

• After the Third Hokage ordered Orochimaru to stop the exam, Miya disposed of a Kusagakure Genin and resumed his killing spree.
• Sunagakure’s Jonin saw Miya heading toward Pakura and feared she could not defeat him.
• Miya located Pakura, Sato, and Gansanji and hurried toward them.
• Pakura sensed Miya approaching and formed a triangular battle formation with Sato and Gansanji.
• Miya appeared before the team, and the Sunagakure Jonin warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Sunagakure might wage war over the incident.
• Pakura recognized Miya and felt that the danger he posed was deadly; Miya recognized her as Scorch Release Pakura.

Miya fought Pakura and her teammates, then used their Scorch Release to develop Nuclear Release: Atomic Cannon. The three survived his first attacks by dodging, but Miya prepared a triple-cannon assault.

• Miya blocked Pakura's Scorch Release with his defenses, while Sato and Gansanji escaped his attacks with help from one another.
• Miya and Pakura's techniques collided, sending them both flying as Sato and Gansanji regrouped beside Pakura.
• Miya learned from the clash, named his new technique Nuclear Release, and threw an Atomic Cannon kunai that blasted the three shinobi into the air.
• Pakura warned Sato and Gansanji to dodge as Miya threw three kunai with Nuclear Release: Atomic Triple Cannon, and they jumped clear of the explosions.

Miya killed Gansanji with a powerful flying slash, then tracked down the fleeing Pakura and Sato. He attacked them again, and Sato chose to stay behind so Pakura could try to escape.

• Miya used Nuclear Release: Atomic Cannon and Nuclear Release: Lightning Blade Slash, shocking the Jonin watching from the Forest of Death tower.
• Sato and Gansanji tried to escape behind an Earth-Style Wall, but Miya’s flying slash pierced the wall and killed Gansanji.
• Miya decided to pursue Pakura and Sato, hoping to use Pakura as leverage with Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Orochimaru headed toward Miya’s location.
• Pakura told Sato they would withdraw from the exam and postpone their revenge, but Miya tracked them to their hollow-tree shelter.
• Miya’s slash cut through the tree, and Sato urged Pakura to flee while he stayed to hold Miya off.

Miya fought Pakura and Sato in the Forest of Death, forcing Pakura to prepare a forbidden technique before Orochimaru intervened and declared Miya’s exam over. Miya refused to leave, claiming Orochimaru was a fake so he could avoid dropping out of the Chunin Exams.

• Miya attacked Pakura and Sato, and Sato lost an arm while protecting her.
• Miya and Pakura exchanged explosive techniques, and Pakura prepared her forbidden Great Explosive Steam Kill Technique to take Miya down with her.
• Orochimaru summoned Rashomon to stop Miya’s Nuclear Release: Rasengan, then told him his exam was over and that Hiruzen had ordered him out of the Forest of Death.
• Pakura suffered backlash from her forbidden technique, while Sato caught her and Hiruzen was relieved that she had survived.
• Miya accused Orochimaru of being a fake and refused to leave the Forest of Death, prompting Orochimaru to narrow his eyes.

Miya declared that he intended to be the only one to pass the Chunin Ninja Exams, prompting other villages to withdraw and Hiruzen Sarutobi to terminate the exam. Miya then challenged Orochimaru, and their fight continued as Miya charged at him with two Lightning Blade Slashes.

• Miya told Orochimaru that he wanted to be the only one to pass the exam and said the other Genin would fail later stages anyway.
• The Sunagakure and Takigakure Jonin requested to withdraw their Genin from the exam.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted the requests and ordered Jiraiya to tell Orochimaru to terminate the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Miya refused to pass automatically, and he and Orochimaru exchanged attacks in the forest.
• Miya cut through Orochimaru's snakes and deflected his Shuriken, impressing Orochimaru with his improved abilities.
• Miya announced that it was his turn to attack and charged Orochimaru with two Lightning Blade Slashes.

Miya tested himself against Orochimaru with a relentless sword assault, revealing that his Lightning Blade Slash could overcome opposing wind-attribute Chakra. After Miya cut down Orochimaru’s giant snake, he demanded that his former teacher fight at full strength, and Orochimaru began using Kage-level power.

• Miya attacked Orochimaru with fast sword strikes, but Orochimaru evaded them using Earth Substitution and Body Flicker.
• Miya’s Lightning Blade Slash shattered the wind-attribute Chakra on Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword, surprising Orochimaru with its strength against an opposing attribute.
• Orochimaru summoned a giant snake with Evil Snake Meandering, and Miya cut it in two from inside with Nuclear Release: Lightning Blade Slash.
• Miya charged Orochimaru and demanded that he show his full strength, warning him not to die.
• Orochimaru used Kage-level power to dodge Miya’s attacks and told him not to die either.

Miya fought Orochimaru with growing skill, revealing strength that made Konoha’s observers judge him to be near Kage-level. The battle continued as Orochimaru tried to exhaust him, while Pakura and Sato watched and vowed to seek revenge for Gansanji.

• Miya cut down Orochimaru’s summoned snakes and forced Orochimaru to dodge his increasingly swift sword strikes.
• The monitoring room lost its view of the fight after a Konoha operator claimed the equipment had been damaged, keeping the other villages’ Jonin from seeing more.
• Hiruzen watched through his crystal ball, recognized Miya’s Quasi-Kage Level strength, and decided to protect him from the consequences of the battle.
• Orochimaru summoned dozens of giant snakes to wear Miya down, exploiting the heavy Chakra and stamina costs of Miya’s Limit Mode.
• Pakura stopped Sato from openly provoking Miya, and both resolved to become stronger and avenge Gansanji.

Miya unleashed Nuclear Release: Overload Mode against Orochimaru’s Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes, then destroyed the snake defense with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan. The explosion left a vast crater in the Forest of Death, while Hiruzen Sarutobi resolved to keep Miya hidden and protect his future.

• Orochimaru used the Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes to send a vast horde of venomous snakes at Miya and drain his Chakra.
• Miya activated Nuclear Release: Overload Mode, levitated above the snakes, and formed a Nuclear Release: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
• Orochimaru sensed deadly danger and formed a Snake Ball from the venomous snakes to defend himself.
• Miya hurled the Rasengan at Orochimaru, and it melted through the snake defense before exploding in a blaze of azure light.
• The blast wiped out the snakes, uprooted trees, and left a crater a hundred meters across; Hiruzen Sarutobi resolved to keep Miya hidden.

Miya defeated Orochimaru with his Nuclear Release: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, then collapsed and was taken to Konoha Hospital by Jiraiya. Hiruzen Sarutobi gathered the surviving examinees and visiting ninja under Anbu guard, intending to keep them from taking details of Miya's role in the Chunin Ninja Exams out of Konoha.

• Miya's azure attack devastated the Forest of Death, and Jiraiya caught him as he fell unconscious.
• Orochimaru escaped the blast with Hiding in the Earth Technique and Snake Shedding, then learned from Jiraiya that the Chunin Ninja Exams had been terminated.
• Jiraiya took Miya to Konoha Hospital while Orochimaru went to the Central Tower.
• Yūhi Shinku told the Genin who had failed the first exam that Konoha needed their cooperation, as Anbu appeared around the room.
• Konoha Anbu escorted the surviving examinees, their supervising Jonin, and the Yukigakure Jonin to the Central Tower's first-floor hall.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assured the assembled ninja that Konoha would not attack them, but said he wanted them to forget parts of the exams.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had the other villages’ ninja and the exam attendees’ memories of Miya sealed and altered, then tasked Shimura Danzō with rooting out spies. Three days later, Miya woke in Konoha Hospital, where Tsunade treated him and warned him about Overload Mode before Hiruzen arrived to ask about lasting aftereffects.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi had the Anbu seal and alter the memories of the other villages’ ninja and the exam attendees, then ended the exams and sent the visiting ninja home.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi entrusted Shimura Danzō with capturing spies, and three days later received a report that Miya had awakened.
• Miya woke in Konoha Hospital and teased Tsunade, who punched him and then treated his injuries with Medical Ninjutsu.
• Tsunade warned Miya that using Overload Mode could damage his body, while Miya remained determined to improve his physical condition and pursue Ryūchi Cave’s Senjutsu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi entered the hospital room and asked Tsunade whether Miya had suffered any lasting aftereffects.

After recovering in the hospital, Miya negotiated for lucrative missions and endured Hiruzen Sarutobi’s lecture about the Will of Fire. Shimura Danzō then demanded that Hiruzen hand Miya over to Root, leaving Hiruzen to decide whether to agree.

• Tsunade left Miya’s hospital room after confirming he was all right, while Hiruzen Sarutobi watched her and Miya called him creepy.
• Miya asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for more spending money, and Hiruzen offered him easy, well-paying missions instead.
• Miya sent Hiruzen Sarutobi away by claiming he needed rest, relieved to escape his long lecture about the Will of Fire.
• Shimura Danzō entered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office and demanded that Miya be handed over to Root for training.

Hiruzen Sarutobi refused Shimura Danzō’s request to recruit Miya into Root, but Danzō went to the hospital anyway and tried to take Miya by surprise. Miya rejected him outright, leaving Danzō facing a defiant target.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to let Shimura Danzō recruit Miya into Root and ordered him back to his duties.
• Shimura Danzō left, vowing to find another way to get Miya.
• After Tsunade treated him, Miya recovered and planned to leave the hospital for Ryūchi Cave the next day.
• Shimura Danzō entered Miya’s hospital room and invited him to join Root, claiming Miya would learn about it after joining.
• Miya pretended not to know Shimura Danzō or Root, then told Danzō to get lost and refused to go with him.

Miya escaped Shimura Danzō’s attempt to take him to Root and recovered in Ryūchi Cave, where he reached Jonin strength and reunited with Susu. After seeing Susu’s progress under the White Snake Sage, Miya began developing a special technique that he intended as a gift for her.

• Shimura Danzō tried to seize Miya, but Tsunade confronted him and forced him to leave Konoha Hospital.
• Miya revealed that he had left a Shadow Clone behind and used the Reverse Summoning Technique to return to Ryūchi Cave.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned of Shimura Danzō’s actions and led Anbu ninja in a violent confrontation at Root’s base.
• After nearly half a month of recovery and eating snake meat, Miya’s injuries healed and his physique advanced to Jonin level.
• Miya reunited with Susu, praised her growth and training, and rested against her while she guarded him.
• Miya decided to develop a special technique that would make Susu happy.