Recaps

Uchiha Yu established a new path through Natural Energy cultivation, killed Root operatives, and overcame inner spiritual trials while keeping his growing power concealed. After earning his chunin promotion, he prepared for the coming war and was assigned to train Obito’s squad.

• Uchiha Yu completed his Foundation Establishment, awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and learned that fire-type Natural Energy strengthened him.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo killed four Root ninja and destroyed their bodies, while Hiruzen Sarutobi blocked Shimura Danzō from blaming the Uchiha without evidence.
• Uchiha Yu advised Uchiha Yashiro and the others on how to help villagers, then began rigorous training to temper his impulsiveness and strengthen his body.
• Uchiha Yu subdued his Heart Monkey during Hiruzen Sarutobi’s speech, awakened Omniscient Mind's Eye, and refused to form a chunin mission squad.
• Uchiha Yu encountered Obito and Rin’s forgotten squad, helped them recover a runaway cat, and noticed White Zetsu surveilling them.
• Uchiha Yu overcame a white gibbon manifestation of his anxiety and discovered a tiny Dangkang representing his earth-element spleen.
• Uchiha Yu attended Uchiha Itachi’s Naming Ceremony, chose to hide his cultivation progress, and considered sparing Itachi if no one he cared about would be endangered.
• Uchiha Yu learned that Obito had secured clan training through Uchiha Fugaku, and that Yu had been selected to train Obito’s squad.

Uchiha Yu trained Obito and Shisui while building ties with the Uchiha clan and uncovering its hidden wealth. As war preparations gathered pace and the Third Kazekage disappeared, Yu’s quiet period at home came to an end.

• Uchiha Yu began training Obito, Rin, and Shinichi, building their physical skills and teaching them chakra control while Shisui later joined their sessions.
• Uchiha Setsuna challenged Uchiha Yu and Obito, but Miwa Masayo subdued Setsuna’s Sharingan, and Uchiha Fugaku recognized Miwa as Cat Castle’s sage.
• Uchiha Yu trained Shisui in chakra circulation and physical conditioning, then decided to guide him toward becoming the next Uchiha clan head.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo prepared Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, shared it with their neighbors, and Shisui praised the meal while beginning the Cat Sage’s body-training method.
• Uchiha Yu struggled to balance the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey and Dangkang within his mind, then developed Free and Easy Wandering to manage his emotions and reactions.
• Uchiha Nobutada entrusted Shisui’s safety to Uchiha Yu and revealed seven chests of hidden Uchiha wealth, which Yu concealed and protected Nobutada from using poisoned wine.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo planned to invest their hidden fortune through Cat Granny, while Yu advised Shisui to estimate Konoha’s grain reserves from Military Police Force records.
• Uchiha Yu strengthened Shisui with medicinal cuisine and private training, then learned from Miwa Masayo that the Third Kazekage had disappeared.

Uchiha Yu helped Cat Castle form the Warm-Blooded Immortal Alliance, then discovered a powerful shard that transformed his cultivation as he traveled through the Land of Rivers. After finding Jiusen Village destroyed by Sunagakure ninja, Yu and Miwa Masayo attacked their forces and faced Fusha and Umino Keisuke.

• Uchiha Yu left Konoha with Miwa Masayo to avoid the coming war, while Uchiha Shisui secretly copied dangerous material from Yu’s scrolls.
• Uchiha Yu killed the Root ninja searching for him and staged their deaths to look like Sunagakure attacks before joining Miwa Masayo at Cat Castle.
• Uchiha Yu cleared the Natural Energy blocking Maoyu’s spine, helping him become the second Cat Sage and take leadership of the Warm-Blooded Immortal Alliance.
• Uchiha Yu built a Natural Energy altar at Cat Castle, then traveled with Miwa Masayo to Jiusen Village and discovered that a landslide had created a dangerous Barrier Lake.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo opened a reinforced drainage channel through the dam, but the torrent swept them downstream and flooded Jiusen Village.
• Uchiha Yu raised a granite dam to protect the village, then returned to the lake and swallowed a Chakra-infused shard that triggered a major cultivation breakthrough.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discovered an underground spring feeding the lake, then confronted Sunagakure ninja and learned that Umino Keisuke had ordered the destruction of Jiusen Village.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo attacked two Sunagakure squads, killed many of their ninja, and confronted Fusha and Umino Keisuke as they prepared to fight with puppets and poisonous wind.

Uchiha Yu built influence within the Uchiha clan by training genin to awaken the Sharingan, while Sunagakure’s invasion drew Konoha into war. Sent to the Land of Hot Water despite his clan’s objections, Yu discovered that Root had assigned him two mindless weapons and turned them against their former allies.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo killed Fusha and Umino Keisuke, then Yu decided to remain in Konoha and work to change the clan’s future.
• Uchiha Yu planned a fireworks attack in Sunagakure to divert Shimura Danzō, and he and Miwa Masayo carried it out before Yu escaped the village’s reinforcements.
• Uchiha Yu established the Ninjutsu and Tactics Study Group, where his training helped genin awaken the Sharingan and brought Uchiha Nobutada and other clan leaders to support his rise.
• Uchiha Yu warned Uchiha Shisui that Konoha’s political balance was becoming dangerous, then prepared the Study Group for the wider war that began when Sunagakure invaded the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Yu received orders to fight in the Land of Hot Water, while Uchiha Fugaku failed to reverse the transfer and lost prestige at a clan assembly.
• Uchiha Yu traveled to the front with Miwa Masayo and encountered Root ninja assigned to watch and kill him.
• Uchiha Yu entered Ryota’s damaged mind, named the creature within him Little C, and used Suggestion Seeds and logic chains to control Ryota and Osamu.
• Uchiha Yu led Miwa Masayo, Ryota, and Osamu to a valley, where the Root ambush began and the two weapons turned on their former allies.