Chapter Summaries

Juzo Biwa escaped Obito and the Zetsus, but Uchiha Chisen confronted them outside Konoha and revealed his own Wood Style while cutting off Obito’s hand. Obito withdrew when Jiraiya approached, left questioning how Chisen knew so much about his Kamui.

• Juzo Biwa used the Hidden Mist Technique and Water Fang to distract Tobi, then fled before Obito and Zetsu arrived.
• Jiraiya stopped Neji from going farther toward the fighting and sent Sage Shima with him while heading toward the wooden giant.
• Kijiro joined Uchiha Chisen and blocked Tobi’s Wood Human as Obito, Zetsu, and Tobi attacked Chisen together.
• Uchiha Chisen used Wood Style to turn Zetsu’s roots against Obito’s shuriken, then cut off Obito’s hand when he tried to touch him.
• Uchiha Chisen tried his Mangekyō Sharingan ability on Obito, but Kamui’s intangibility prevented it from working.
• After Zetsu warned that Jiraiya was nearing, Obito ordered a retreat and wondered how Uchiha Chisen knew Kamui’s weakness.

Uchiha Chisen used his Mangekyō Sharingan to inflict torment and a soul-burning curse on Black Zetsu, while Obito and Uchiha Itachi began discussing a possible alliance against Chisen or the Uchiha Clan. Jiraiya arrived after the battle and learned that Chisen had fought Wood Style users connected to his own student’s student.

• Obito retreated through Kamui, and Vortex-faced White Zetsu and Black Zetsu fled from Uchiha Chisen.
• Uchiha Chisen used Judgment on Black Zetsu, forcing him to relive the suffering of his victims, then branded him with Divine Retribution.
• Black Zetsu’s soul-burning flames spread across Aloe White Zetsu, and Uchiha Itachi advised Obito to separate their souls to keep Black Zetsu alive.
• Uchiha Itachi offered to cooperate with Obito to eliminate Uchiha Chisen or the Uchiha Clan, and Obito agreed to hear him out.
• Jiraiya arrived after the battle and learned from Juzo Biwa that Uchiha Chisen and two enemies had used Wood Style.
• Uchiha Chisen told Jiraiya that the enemy he had fought was his student’s student, leaving Jiraiya stunned.

Uchiha Itachi allied with Obito and accepted a mission to kill Uchiha Izumi as proof of loyalty, while Sarutobi Hiruzen learned about Obito and the Wood Style users. Itachi attacked Izumi, but Uchiha Chisen arrived to pass judgment on him.

• Uchiha Itachi persuaded Obito to consider cooperating against Uchiha Chisen and returned to Konoha after deciding the village's growing support for Chisen threatened the Hokage's authority.
• Hyuga Neji reported a Wood Style battle to Sarutobi Hiruzen and explained that he trusted Chisen's absolute justice to bring his father justice; Sage Shima judged Neji unlikely to be the Child of Prophecy.
• Uchiha Chisen refused Sage Fukasaku's request to identify the Child of Prophecy and warned Mount Myōboku not to obstruct absolute justice.
• Obito ordered Vortex-faced White Zetsu to demand that Itachi attack Uchiha Izumi as proof of loyalty, and Itachi threatened White Zetsu before agreeing to act.
• Jiraiya told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Obito was alive and had joined Akatsuki, and Hiruzen suspected Orochimaru had distributed Wood Style cells.
• Uchiha Itachi attacked Izumi under genjutsu, but she resisted and saw his plans to kill Chisen and destroy the Uchiha Clan; as Itachi gained the advantage, Chisen arrived and declared that Itachi would die without mercy.

Uchiha Chisen confronted Uchiha Itachi inside Konoha after Itachi resolved to kill him in the name of protecting the village. Chisen overpowered Itachi’s Mangekyō techniques and Susanoo, killing him, while Fugaku and others rushed toward the battle.

• At dinner, Fugaku grew uneasy about Itachi, and Mikoto reminded him that Itachi had chosen to follow Chisen’s prophecy despite the consequences for his family.
• Chisen and Izumi accused Itachi of twisted thinking as Itachi defended his plan and attacked Chisen with fire and water techniques.
• Itachi’s water attack triggered a steam explosion, but Chisen survived and struck back with a massive magma fist that blasted apart the Konoha River.
• Fugaku, Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Jiraiya noticed the eruption and hurried or prepared to respond, while Fugaku suspected Itachi was fighting Chisen.
• Itachi used Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, but Chisen’s Susanoo protected him; Itachi then summoned his own Susanoo and tried to continue the fight.
• Chisen’s enormous armored Susanoo cleaved through Itachi’s Susanoo and vaporized him, killing Itachi.

After Uchiha Itachi died, he met Shisui in the afterlife and confessed his plan to destroy the Uchiha Clan and control Sasuke, leaving Shisui horrified and confused. In Konoha, Uchiha Chisen confirmed Itachi’s death, kept Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami eye, and faced Sarutobi Hiruzen’s arrival with Anbu.

• Uchiha Itachi met Shisui after death and explained that he had planned to kill Chisen, exterminate the Uchiha Clan, and use Kotoamatsukami to control Sasuke.
• Shisui challenged Itachi’s reasoning and asked whether something had traumatized him.
• Fugaku, Hiruzen, Jiraiya, and Konoha’s clans and residents reacted with shock to Chisen’s enormous Susanoo and the trench it carved through the village wall.
• Chisen told Izumi that Itachi was dead and explained that his Susanoo’s magma-infused blade had vaporized Itachi’s body.
• Chisen gave Izumi a scroll containing Amaterasu and revealed that the raven carried Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami eye.
• Hiruzen arrived with a large group of Anbu, and Tsunade asked whether they had come to support Chisen or guard against him.

Uchiha Chisen killed Uchiha Itachi after stopping his plan to attack Uchiha Izumi and collude with Uchiha Obito, leaving Fugaku and the Uchiha Clan to face the consequences. As news of Itachi’s death spread, Neji learned that a Branch Family elder had died from the Caged Bird Seal and began to question the rules that trapped his family.

• Uchiha Izumi told Sarutobi Hiruzen and Uchiha Fugaku that Itachi had planned to attack her and help Uchiha Obito massacre the Uchiha Clan before Chisen killed him.
• Uchiha Chisen blamed Fugaku for ignoring his warnings and raising Itachi without correcting his extremism, while Fugaku accepted the Hokage’s warning not to provoke internal conflict.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Sasuke that Itachi was dead and that no remains were left; Mikoto agreed that Itachi had chosen the wrong path.
• Uchiha Chisen sent a Wood Clone with Juzo Biwa to Amegakure so Juzo could tell Konan what he knew about the Akatsuki Organization.
• News of Itachi’s death spread through the Uchiha Clan, where military police ninja praised Chisen and Sasuke resolved that justice must override family ties.
• Neji learned that a Main Family elder had activated the Caged Bird Seal on a Branch Family elder, causing his death, then helped Rock Lee up at the Ninja Academy and rejected a classmate’s contempt for him.

Neji brought a grieving Hyuga Branch Family boy to Uchiha Chisen after learning that a Main Family elder’s use of the Caged Bird Seal had led to the boy’s grandfather’s death. As the Hyuga leaders tried to contain the fallout and keep Chisen from intervening, Neji told Chisen what had happened, leaving Naruto and Sasuke shocked by the clan’s rules.

• Neji asked the Branch Family boy whether his grandfather had been killed, then urged him to come along rather than give in to grief.
• Juzo Biwa traveled with Chisen’s wood clone, while White Zetsu informed Obito that Itachi had been killed by Chisen before he could capture Izumi.
• Hiruzen sent Mitokado Homura to address the Hyuga conflict and urged the clan to settle it before Chisen became involved.
• Homura confronted the Hyuga Main Family, and Hiashi told Jinpu to leave Konoha temporarily while the elders discussed keeping the Branch Family quiet.
• Neji brought the grieving boy to Chisen with Naruto and Sasuke, and Neji recounted the events truthfully; Naruto and Sasuke questioned the Hyuga clan’s rules.

Hyuga Neji and a Branch Family elder’s grandson sought Uchiha Chisen’s help in confronting Hyuga Jinpu over the elder’s death and the Caged Bird Seal. Chisen blocked Jinpu’s departure from Konoha, and Neji openly challenged the Main Family as Orochimaru reconsidered his plans and Juzo Biwa was ambushed by Kirigakure ninja.

• Hyuga Jinpu’s sons protested his decision to lie low, while Jinpu feared Uchiha Chisen’s power and absolute justice.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Mitokado Homura that Jinpu’s temporary departure was the Main Family’s greatest concession, and Homura later warned Sarutobi Hiruzen that the clan’s Main Family remained beyond Konoha’s influence.
• Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku judged Uchiha Izumi unsuitable as the Child of Prophecy, so Jiraiya crossed Uchiha Itachi off his list and considered Uchiha Sasuke instead.
• Orochimaru learned that Jiraiya and Tsunade were in Konoha, delayed his Konoha Destruction Plan, and identified Uchiha Chisen as his greatest obstacle.
• Blood Mist Ninja attacked Juzo Biwa and Chisen’s Wood Clone, while Uchiha Chisen arrived to stop Hyuga Jinpu from leaving Konoha.
• Hyuga Neji exposed his Caged Bird Seal, accused the Main Family of oppressing the Branch Family, and demanded justice for the elder from Hyuga Jinpu.

Uchiha Chisen executed Hyuga Jinpu and exposed the crimes of his son, Hyuga Kenjiro, before the Hyuga Clan. In Kirigakure, his Wood Clone revealed Uchiha Obito’s role in the Bloody Mist and challenged Juzo Biwa to confront the village’s evils, while Konoha’s leaders worried about Chisen’s actions.

• Uchiha Chisen judged Hyuga Jinpu guilty of torturing Hyuga Yokoshu and killed him with Wood Style in the Hyuga compound.
• Juzo Biwa and Uchiha Chisen’s Wood Clone defeated a Kirigakure Anbu squad, and the clone told Juzo that Uchiha Obito controlled the Fourth Mizukage and revived the Bloody Mist Policy.
• Juzo Biwa questioned what Uchiha Chisen would do about Kirigakure’s corruption, and the Wood Clone said Chisen would purge its evils with uncompromising force.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Mitokado Homura discussed the Hyuga Clan’s attempt to make Hyuga Jinpu leave Konoha and feared Chisen would reject the arrangement.
• Uchiha Chisen exposed Hyuga Kenjiro’s drug smuggling and murder, and Hyuga Hiashi declined to protect him.
• Uchiha Chisen beheaded Hyuga Kenjiro in front of the gathered Hyuga Clan members, leaving Hyuga Hiashi spattered with blood.

Uchiha Chisen challenged the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and the rules used to justify the Branch Family’s oppression, forcing Hyuga Hiashi and Neji to confront their beliefs. The chapter ended with Chisen asking whether the Hyuga Main Family would obstruct his justice as he moved to intervene in the clan’s traditions.

• Hyuga Hiashi admitted that Hyuga Jinpu and Hyuga Kenjiro had broken the law, but Chisen exposed that Hiashi still believed Hyuga Yokoshu deserved punishment for trying to break the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hiashi defended the Caged Bird as protection for the Hyuga bloodline, then revealed that the Branch Family served as the Main Family’s guardians because the Main Family did not need the seal.
• Kijiro condemned the Caged Bird and the Hyuga Clan’s rules, while Neji asked why the Branch Family had to guard the Main Family and die in its place.
• A Hyuga Main Family Elder insisted that the clan’s ancestral laws could not change and told Chisen that the clan’s rules were outside his jurisdiction.
• Chisen asked Neji whether the Hyuga Clan’s order, fairness, and morality were just, then declared that justice had a duty to correct rules that bred evil and challenged the Hyuga Clan to stand in his way.
• Kijiro urged Neji not to let rules disguise evil or keep the Branch Family kneeling before the Main Family.

Uchiha Chisen intervened in the Hyuga Clan’s conflict, forced Hiashi to consider changing the house rules, and began sentencing Main Family members for abusing the Branch Family. As Chisen threatened Hyuga Mei, Mitokado Homura arrived with five Anbu Squads to stop him.

• Neji supported changing the Hyuga house rules, and Hiashi agreed the clan would consider revisions under pressure from Chisen.
• Chisen declared that Main Family members who abused the Branch Family would face punishment, and he severed a young Jonin’s arm when the man tried to activate Neji’s Caged Bird Seal.
• Pakkun warned Hiruzen that he had smelled blood at the Hyuga compound, prompting Hiruzen to send Homura with five Anbu Squads.
• In Amegakure, Konan told Nagato that Juzo Biwa was returning with intelligence about Uchiha Madara, and Nagato asked her to prepare information about Akatsuki’s future enemies, including Chisen.
• Chisen named Main Family members and assigned prison sentences, then threatened to kill Hyuga Mei when the elder protested.
• Homura arrived with five Anbu Squads as Chisen held his sword to Mei’s neck.

Uchiha Chisen forced the Hyuga Main Family to accept imprisonment after Mitokado Homura refused to intervene, while Hyuga Neji was invited to join Naruto and Sasuke. As Fugaku confronted Chisen at the Military Police Force, Neji discovered that the Branch Family was already considering choosing a new Main Family.

• Mitokado Homura arrived at the Hyuga Clan Compound, heard the dispute, and declared that the village would not side with the Main Family because of its use of the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hyuga Hiashi accepted punishment for the Main Family, but Uchiha Chisen sentenced him to ten years and said only seven members qualified to reduce their terms through service.
• Uchiha Chisen invited Hyuga Neji to join Naruto and Sasuke, then ordered Hiashi to bring the named clan members to the Military Police Force.
• Mitokado Homura reported the arrests to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who said Chisen’s actions had achieved a change the Hokage had failed to accomplish for decades.
• Fugaku learned that Chisen had arrested more than thirty Hyuga Main Family members and hurried to confront him at the Military Police Force Building.
• Hyuga Neji heard Branch Family members discuss choosing a new Main Family and was asked to vote for a Branch Family Elder at the coming Clan Meeting.

Uchiha Chisen’s campaign against the Hyuga Main Family continued with the Hokage’s tacit approval, leaving Hyuga Neji to confront the Branch Family’s own hunger for power. The chapter ended with Neji rejecting both factions’ claims to justice and warning the Branch Family to behave.

• Uchiha Chisen arrested thirty-four Hyuga Main Family members, and Kijiro told Uchiha Fugaku that the arrests carried the Third’s approval.
• Hyuga Mei abandoned hope of resisting after seeing Fugaku unable to challenge Chisen or his supporters in the Military Police Force.
• Hyuga Neji told Hinata that some Branch Family members sought the Main Family’s power rather than equality, and he concluded that the clan’s evil had not been fully purged.
• Hyuga Hiashi remained in prison, accepting blame for failing to protect the Main Family and refusing to escape because of the consequences.
• Utatane Koharu challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen for allowing Chisen to impose his extreme justice, but Hiruzen said Konoha had few alternatives.
• At the Hyuga Clan Meeting, Neji accused the Branch Family of wanting power rather than justice, warned them that justice was watching, and walked out.

Neji faced growing suspicion at the Academy while Orochimaru ordered a spy to seize Hinata and Hanabi’s Byakugan, and Chisen’s Wood Clone helped Juzo free captives from bandits. Ino explained the Caged Bird to Hinata, who later met Chisen at Ichiraku, where he warned her to leave the Hyuga compound and offered to arrange a new home.

• Neji heard Academy students blame him for bringing Chisen to the Hyuga Clan, then met Naruto, Sasuke, and Ino, who also followed absolute justice.
• Orochimaru told his spy to take Hinata’s and Hanabi’s Byakugan, alive or dead.
• Chisen’s Wood Clone and Juzo defeated bandits and freed more than thirty captives, prompting Juzo to recognize why Chisen intervened.
• Ino sat beside Hinata and explained how the Main Family had used the Caged Bird Seal to control the Branch Family, urging Hinata to ask Neji about the clan’s past.
• Hinata went to Ichiraku for lunch, where Chisen returned her dropped money and treated her to nine bowls of ramen.
• Chisen warned Hinata that she could be targeted while living at the Hyuga compound and offered to arrange a new place for her.

Uchiha Chisen arranged to protect Hinata and the Hyuga Main Family children, then confronted Orochimaru’s spy before he could steal their Byakugan. The spy’s body bore Curse Marks, and Chisen began using Adamantine Unsealing on him as Orochimaru’s snake proxy was cut down.

• Chisen told Hinata to bring Hanabi and the other Hyuga Main Family women and children to Ichiraku Ramen that evening, while Kijiro spotted an Orochimaru spy following her.
• A wood clone of Chisen told Juzo Biwa that the Akatsuki Organization was evil, and Juzo agreed to visit a meeting place where a woman was waiting for him.
• Two Ninja Academy students bullied Hinata, but Neji struck them with wooden kunai and told Hinata she could ask him for help if it happened again.
• Chisen confronted Hekawa Hisashi, who tried to escape with a smoke technique before Kijiro chased his Shadow Clone and Anko and Izumi identified him as Orochimaru’s spy.
• Orochimaru spoke through a white snake and tried to recruit Chisen, who cut off the snake’s head, grabbed Hekawa, exposed his Curse Marks, and began Adamantine Unsealing.

Uchiha Chisen captured Orochimaru’s spy and learned the location of one of Orochimaru’s secret bases, while Uchiha Fugaku brooded over Itachi’s death and the forces that shaped him. Chisen also received a lead on the merchant Gato and prepared to pursue both targets.

• Uchiha Chisen removed Orochimaru’s curse mark from Hekawa Hisashi, knocked him unconscious, and sent him with Uchiha Izumi to the Yamanaka Clan for memory examination.
• Mitaraishi Anko asked to join the hunt for Orochimaru, and Uchiha Chisen agreed.
• Yamanaka Inoichi agreed to help Chisen and told Izumi that a returned Yamanaka ninja knew an associate of the merchant Gato.
• Uchiha Fugaku blamed Itachi’s choices on pressure from the Hokage, the Will of Fire, Uchiha Setsuna, and Uchiha Chisen, then resolved to search for Itachi’s contingency plans.
• Uchiha Chisen received Orochimaru intelligence from Yamanaka Inoichi and learned the location of a secret experimental base in the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Chisen asked Yamanaka Anze for Gato’s associate’s address and decided he could deal with that lead along the way.

Hyuga Hinata realized the Branch Family’s resentment toward the Main Family and agreed to leave the compound with its remaining members after Uchiha Chisen’s instruction. Meanwhile, Anko’s talk about Orochimaru alerted the Third Hokage and Koharu, while Chisen’s Wood Clone met Konan in the Land of Rain, where she suspected Juzo Biwa had betrayed the Akatsuki.

• Hyuga Hinata overheard Branch Family members discuss branding her and Hanabi with the Caged Bird Seal, then understood why Neji resented the Main Family.
• Hyuga Hinata urged Hyuga Keizuka to take the surviving Main Family members to Ichiraku Ramen, and Keizuka agreed because Uchiha Chisen had ordered them to meet him there.
• Mitaraishi Anko told Izumi that Orochimaru was difficult to kill and that she was grateful he had abandoned her; an off-duty Anbu ninja overheard them and reported the conversation to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Utatane Koharu decided to seek Orochimaru’s hideout and seize his research before Chisen could destroy it, despite Sarutobi Hiruzen’s warning not to act recklessly.
• Hyuga Keizuka brought Hinata, Hanabi, and the other Main Family survivors to Ichiraku Ramen, where Hinata ate eleven large bowls and started a twelfth.
• Juzo Biwa brought Uchiha Chisen’s Wood Clone to the rendezvous in the Land of Rain, where Konan appeared and wondered whether Juzo had betrayed the Akatsuki.

Mitaraishi Anko refused Utatane Koharu’s Root agents information about Orochimaru, while Uchiha Chisen arranged safe lodging for the Hyuga Main Family and confronted Konan in the Land of Rain. After Chisen revealed that the supposed Uchiha Madara was Uchiha Obito, Konan and Nagato learned the truth, and Obito returned to find that the Akatsuki had named him as their new recruit.

• Mitaraishi Anko rejected Utatane Koharu’s demand for Orochimaru’s location and fought the Root agents who tried to capture her.
• Uchiha Chisen arranged for the Hyuga Main Family to stay at an inn under Tsunade’s watch, and Hyuga Keizuka accepted the protection.
• Konan confronted Juzo Biwa and Uchiha Chisen’s Wood Clone, who revealed that Uchiha Madara was actually Uchiha Obito and exposed his weaknesses.
• Uchiha Chisen’s Wood Clone destroyed Konan’s Paper Clone, and Konan told Nagato that Obito had deceived them about his identity.
• Uchiha Obito returned to the Akatsuki base, where Konan told him their new recruit was Uchiha Obito.

Tsunade agreed to protect the Hyuga Main Family’s women and children, while Uchiha Izumi intervened when Root attacked Mitaraishi Anko over her intelligence about Orochimaru. In the Land of Rain, Konan’s mention of Uchiha Obito rattled the masked man, and in Konoha, Utatane Koharu withdrew after Sarutobi Hiruzen’s intervention but confronted him over his reluctance to act.

• Tsunade agreed to shelter the Hyuga Main Family’s women and children and assigned Hyuga Keizuka to run errands for Shizune.
• Root attacked Mitaraishi Anko to seize her intelligence about Orochimaru, but Uchiha Izumi arrived and accused Utatane Koharu of abusing her authority.
• An Anbu Ninja relayed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s warning, prompting Utatane Koharu to withdraw; Izumi then challenged her and demanded an apology and a five-year sentence.
• Konan confronted the masked man with the name Uchiha Obito, leaving Obito sweating as he denied being the dead Uchiha.
• Nagato stopped Konan from pressing the masked man, and Obito retreated to the Kamui Dimension, where he worried that Konan had uncovered his identity.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen rebuked Utatane Koharu for targeting Chisen’s subordinates, and Koharu accused him of fearing Chisen and being too indecisive.

Uchiha Fugaku learned that clan members had secretly organized around Uchiha Chisen’s absolute justice, while Chisen gave three Uchiha jonin a test to earn its recognition. Fugaku confronted Uchiha Mikoto over concealing the meeting, and their disagreement left their marriage divided.

• Uchiha Fugaku learned from a trusted jonin that Absolute Justice Faction members had met to draft an Absolute Justice Enforcement Manual without telling him.
• Uchiha Chisen approved the draft and challenged three Uchiha jonin to find Gato and cut off his head as an assessment for absolute justice.
• Uchiha Fugaku confronted Uchiha Mikoto for hiding the meeting, and she explained that she feared his unstable emotions would lead him to act rashly.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Fugaku that his judgment had changed since Uchiha Itachi died, while Fugaku accused her of siding with Uchiha Chisen’s absolute justice.
• Uchiha Fugaku said Mikoto should visit Itachi’s cenotaph and left for the Konoha Military Police Force, convinced that a rift had formed between them.