Chapter Summaries

Utsusemi introduced new crops and farming methods to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju while the Senju and Uchiha clans began cooperating after their ceasefire. She left the fields in Itama’s care and turned to the stalled alliance, which was blocked by the curse on Uchiha Izuna.

• Utsusemi gave Hashirama Senju exotic flower seeds and a scroll about Byzantine crop rotation, while Tobirama Senju examined the material and vanilla pod.
• Utsusemi shared modern crop seeds and described how flowers and herbs could support new agricultural and perfume projects; Tobirama Senju cautioned that cash crops needed careful handling.
• Utsusemi proposed crossbreeding rice for disease resistance and high yields, but Tobirama Senju calculated that the work required years of peace.
• Hashirama Senju embraced Utsusemi and Tobirama Senju as they spoke about hoping for children to grow up in peace.
• Utsusemi told Itama to repeat the previous year's planting method on her farmland and put him in charge of the work with doubled wages.
• Utsusemi stopped farming to address the Uchiha-Senju alliance impasse caused by the curse on Uchiha Izuna.

Utsusemi, Madara Uchiha, and Izuna Uchiha uncovered evidence that a hidden enemy had been manipulating the clan for centuries to obtain the Rinnegan. Utsusemi reaffirmed that she would protect them rather than sacrifice them for peace, and Madara embraced her and Izuna.

• Utsusemi suggested letting Tobirama Senju help research Izuna Uchiha's curse, but Izuna and Madara Uchiha refused to trust him.
• Madara Uchiha revealed that seven clan members had suffered memory gaps, including three who maintained the compound's barrier, and Utsusemi suspected they were being controlled.
• Izuna Uchiha recalled that Homura Uchiha had changed months earlier, and Utsusemi considered the possibility that the enemy could monitor the clan through its controlled members.
• Utsusemi and Madara Uchiha concluded that the centuries of Uchiha killings might have been orchestrated to obtain the Sage of Six Paths' Rinnegan.
• Utsusemi insisted that she would not sacrifice Izuna Uchiha for an ideal, and Madara Uchiha drew her and Izuna into his embrace.

Utsusemi and Tobirama surveyed the Naka River for a future hydroelectric project, but Tobirama’s warning about clans fighting over power and Utsusemi’s repeated treatments of Izuna weighed on her. She returned exhausted and fell asleep over the plans while Tobirama gently touched her hair.

• Utsusemi identified the Naka River as a promising source of hydroelectric power and invited Tobirama to survey it with her.
• Utsusemi showed Tobirama her turbine plans, and he measured the river and judged the project feasible once the village was built.
• Tobirama warned that installing power equipment before the village existed would create a strategic resource for the clans to fight over.
• Utsusemi left to treat Izuna at the Uchiha residence, and Tobirama watched her go without stopping her.
• Utsusemi returned late and reviewed engineering materials with Tobirama, then fell asleep at the table; Tobirama gently ran his fingers through her hair.

Utsusemi pursued a way to restore the Sharingan by secretly collecting Hashirama’s Wood Release cells, while helping Hashirama and Madara discuss plans for the future village. Hashirama’s uncontrolled embrace forced Tobirama to intervene, and Utsusemi escaped with her samples as the brothers began to suspect something was wrong.

• Utsusemi discovered that Flower Release energy helped regenerate atrophied optic nerves, then devised a plan to obtain Hashirama’s cells using concealed sampling nails.
• Utsusemi brought Hashirama a village proposal and arranged a meeting between him and Madara, where they discussed plans for schools, industry, and the Naka River.
• Madara warned Utsusemi that she did not need to visit that night, and Hashirama asked how long she would continue treating Izuna.
• Utsusemi suggested that moving to the Uchiha Compound might help secure an alliance, and Hashirama erupted, crushing her in an embrace as she collected his blood and tissue.
• Tobirama stopped Hashirama and drove him into the ground, while Utsusemi escaped with Flying Thunder God and analyzed the samples in her laboratory.
• Tobirama confronted Hashirama about the incident and grew wary when he learned Madara had asked Utsusemi to stay at the Uchiha Compound.

Utsusemi cloned Madara Uchiha’s Sharingan to prepare organs for Izuna, but discovered the clones could trigger fatal woodification and faced the moral weight of her experiment. After sealing the specimens away, she found comfort in Tobirama and returned with him to the Senju clan’s unfinished financial work.

• Utsusemi’s experiments regenerated Madara Uchiha’s discarded Sharingan, producing clones with varying levels of ocular power and a malformed eye with wooden eyelashes.
• Utsusemi realized that damage to the cloned eyes could make Wood Release Cells turn a transplant recipient’s body to wood, forcing repeated eye removal and repair in the Spacetime Tower’s time-stop field.
• Utsusemi sealed the clones and failed specimens in the Spacetime Tower, then returned home and collapsed after retching.
• Itama summoned Tobirama, who took Utsusemi for a walk by the Naka River and asked why she was troubled.
• Utsusemi leaned into Tobirama and cried, while he comforted her and kept his questions about Izuna’s lingering injury to himself.
• Utsusemi gradually recovered her composure, joked about Tobirama’s fur-collared robe, and went with him to review the Senju clan’s financial statements.

Utsusemi agreed to reduce her grueling training after Tobirama and Hashirama warned that her mental strain was nearing its limit. She reflected on her exhausting nightly treatments of Izuna and the unexpected tenderness Madara had shown her, while Itama recognized that her training came from the burden of suppressing the Uchiha.

• Tobirama recorded the Tenseigan's effects and warned that Utsusemi's mental strain was approaching a critical threshold.
• Hashirama and Tobirama urged Utsusemi to rest and reduce her Taijutsu training, and she agreed to practice it only twice a week.
• Utsusemi remembered Izuna's growing dependence on her during Six Paths Mode treatments and Madara's care when she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Itama recalled Utsusemi's plans to suppress the Uchiha and understood that the pressure of that operation had driven her relentless training.

Madara and Utsusemi used Izuna’s apparent recovery as bait to expose the person sabotaging his health, while confirming that the Senju and Uchiha alliance would proceed. When an assassin attacked Izuna, Utsusemi revealed Black Zetsu inside the attacker and captured half of it, discovering that the enemy was only partly present.

• Madara found falsified clan records and evidence that someone had used yin release Chakra to suppress Izuna’s recovery, so he and Utsusemi planned to lure out the culprit by claiming Izuna was healed.
• Utsusemi told the Senju brothers that Izuna’s recovery was bait, but Madara had agreed to build the village, with both clans’ names to be carved into its foundation stone on the next full moon.
• An assassin disguised as a Senju clansman attacked Izuna at the training ground, and Madara’s Susanoo and the defenders’ Earth Style Walls failed to stop its three Chakra-bearing clones.
• Utsusemi entered Six Paths Mode and used her chains and Truth-Seeking Orbs to expose the tar-like matter possessing the assassin.
• Utsusemi pulled half of Black Zetsu from the attacker and realized the captured mass was only half of him.

Utsusemi exposed Black Zetsu’s thousand-year scheme to manipulate the Senju and Uchiha into killing one another and reveal the truth behind the Rinnegan’s creation. She ordered the clans to hold a trial, setting the stage for their alliance and her plan to lift the Uchiha’s curse.

• Black Zetsu fled to a hidden nest near a Dragon Vein node, intending to recover and wait out the Tenseigan wielder.
• Utsusemi captured Black Zetsu with the Mind Sphere, and he admitted he was Princess Kaguya’s son and had engineered the Uchiha’s thousand-year curse.
• Utsusemi and Madara Uchiha revealed memories showing Black Zetsu had forged feuds, altered missions, manipulated deaths, and corrupted the stone tablet to drive the Senju and Uchiha toward the Rinnegan.
• The Senju and Uchiha learned that Black Zetsu had tampered with Itama’s mission and caused much of the clans’ supposed blood debts, leaving Hashirama and the assembled ninja shaken.
• Utsusemi silenced the crowd, declared the conspiracy would end in the name of the Six Paths, and ordered the Senju and Uchiha brothers to convene a trial and expose Black Zetsu’s crimes.
• The Senju brothers realized Utsusemi’s two-hundred-day healing ritual had prepared her to sever the Uchiha’s curse and help bring about an alliance.

After Black Zetsu’s judgment and purification ended the thousand-year curse, Utsusemi performed a Sharingan transplant on Izuna. The surgery succeeded, restoring Izuna’s sight and leaving him reborn with a rebuilt Chakra network and new power.

• Utsusemi presided over Black Zetsu’s trial, exposed his crimes, and oversaw the sealing that dissolved the thousand-year curse.
• Utsusemi warned Izuna that his transplanted Sharingan must never be damaged, and Madara and Izuna signed the surgical agreement.
• Utsusemi and Itama Senju transplanted the specially cultivated Sharingan while Izuna endured the painful procedure without anesthesia.
• Utsusemi completed the nerve connections, and the eye transplant succeeded as the operating room’s emergency lights went out.
• Izuna opened his eyes, saw Utsusemi clearly, and realized his Chakra network and vision had been restored.

As the Senju and Uchiha prepared to form an alliance, Utsusemi presented the land and plans she had spent months preparing for their village. The group began organizing construction, though Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna remained hostile while working together.

• Utsusemi revealed that she had bought the land surrounding the Senju and Uchiha compounds and offered the deeds in exchange for a permanent seat among the elders and thirty percent of land rent.
• Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha examined Utsusemi's proposal and village plans, while Hashirama Senju became emotional over the end of the clans' feud.
• Utsusemi presented plans for commercial buildings, drainage, housing, and future infrastructure, and Hashirama Senju agreed to use Wood Release to help build the village.
• Tobirama Senju insisted that the sewer system take priority over the hydroelectric plant, and Utsusemi assigned Izuna to oversee the Uchiha side.
• Madara Uchiha reported that Utsusemi's tempered glass was seventy percent complete, and the group divided up work while Tobirama Senju and Izuna continued to clash over the plans.